Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was awarded the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and other honors. The collection has been featured in Essence Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.
While at MacDowell, Taylor worked on her first novel.
Portrait by Lucas Carpenter
