Taylor Light

Taylor Light is a poet from Dallas, TX. She was a finalist for the Scotti Merrill Award, and she was nominated for Best New Poets 2026. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, North American Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Holding an MFA from the University of Florida, she has received support from the Stanford Humanities Center and the London Arts-Based Research Centre. Her latest work was read at Stanford University and the University of Cambridge (UK). Currently, she’s a PhD student at Southern Methodist University where she works for Project Poetica.