He is the senior editor of Electric Literature 's 'Recommended Reading'. Taylor's short stories and essays have appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay Mag, The New Yorker, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He earned graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Taylor attended Auburn University Montgomery for his undergraduate studies, and then joined a graduate biochemistry program, and after leaving in 2016 began a career in creative writing. Part of Taylor's upbringing was spent in a very religious, conservative Baptist setting. Taylor was born in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up in a small community outside Montgomery. In 2022, Taylor's Filthy Animals won The Story Prize awarded annually to collections of short fiction.

His debut novel, Real Life, came out in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories and essays have been published in many outlets and have received critical acclaim. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa and has received several fellowships for his writing.

I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book.Brandon Taylor (born June 1, 1989) is an American writer. ‘Extraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. ‘This extraordinary debut is a manual for life that I wish I ‘d had sooner.’ - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times There is delicacy in the details of working in a lab full of microbes and pipettes that dances across the pages like the feet of a Cunningham dancer: pure, precise poetry.’ - New York Times Elegant, brutal and startlingly intimate, Real Life is a campus novel about learning to live from an electric new voice in fiction. But, over the course of one blustery end-of-summer weekend, the destruction of his work and a series of intense confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past, and the question of the future. For reasons of self-preservation, he has become used to keeping a wary distance even from those closest to him. His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn’t go back for the funeral, and he hasn’t told his friends Miller, Yngve, Cole and Emma. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. ‘A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race.’ - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn

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