Assiduous Dust #12.5: Taylor Byas - 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest Winner

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TAYLOR BYAS is a Black poet and essayist. Originally from Chicago, she moved to Alabama for six years, where she received both her Bachelor’s degree in English and her Master’s degree in English (Creative Writing concentration) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor currently lives in Cincinnati, where she is a second year PhD student and Albert C. Yates Scholar at the University of Cincinnati studying poetry. She is a reader for both The Rumpus and The Cincinnati Review, and the Poetry Editor for FlyPaper Lit. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Glass Poetry, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Hobart, Pidgeonholes, SWWIM, The Rumpus and others. Her prose appears or is forthcoming in Empty Mirror, Jellyfish Review, JMWW, Mixed Mag and others. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets 2020, and has received six Best of the Net nominations. She is also the 2020 Winner of the Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest.