Taylor Light
Entry Year: 2025
Education
MFA in Poetry, University of FloridaMA in English Literature, Texas Tech University
Taylor Light’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, North American Review, The Missouri Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Holding an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida, she has received support from the Stanford Humanities Center, the London Arts-Based Research Centre, and the Convivio Conference in Postignano, Italy. She has presented conference papers at Stanford University and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She was nominated for Best New Poets 2026 and was a finalist for the Key West Emerging Writers Prize. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Southern Methodist University, where she works for Project Poëtica.
