Taylor Kirby is a writer from Denver, Colorado. She is currently a fiction candidate and Porter House Review editor at Texas State University’s MFA program, and her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Longleaf Review, Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, Atticus Review, and more. Tweet her @taykir.
Content by Taylor Kirby
Field Notes,
2019 Editor’s Prize Results
Winners Selected by judges Carmen Maria Machado, Leslie Jamison, Ada Limón, & Meg Lionel Murphy Fiction: Lady Sings by Mant Bares Nonfiction: To Be Loved by Chloe Vassot Poetry: Cricket Noon by Tennessee Hill Visual Art: Tapadas, Saints and Other Heroines by Kathy Bruce Fiction Finalists Black Girl Inside Outpatient by Maya Pearson Coronation by […]
Reviews,
Speaking With Severed Tongues: On “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado
Machado is so profoundly in control of silence that she has taught it its own language.
Reviews,
Considering Danger: Isolation and Initiation in “The Collected Schizophrenias”
This is a collection that demands, and excavates space, for Wang to be heard on her own terms. She speaks not to people who want to witness her but rather to people who are like her, people have been forced to look at their illnesses from the outside in for as long as mental illness has texturized fictional landscapes with fear and spectacle.