About Me
Caitlin Rae Taylor is a writer, editor, and designer based in North Carolina. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she served as the fiction editor for Ecotone and the publishing assistant for Lookout Books. She has worked as editor of Southern Humanities Review and as the art director/designer for Press Pause Press. She is currently the Engagement Editor for The Rumpus, the Assistant Director of the Publishing Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and the Assistant Art Director for Ecotone magazine. Her fiction, book reviews, and interviews can be found or are forthcoming in Cream City Review, Terrain.org, the Greensboro Review, CRAFT Literary, Cotton Xenomorph, Pacifica, Adroit, HaveHasHad, Moon City Review, Southern Humanities Review online, and elsewhere. Her short story “To Stay Alive” was nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize.
Her work veers toward the speculative and slightly bizarre. She often writes about the complexities of faith, queer girlhood, the limits of empathy, mob mentality, religious trauma, and bisexuality. She lives in defense of The Ridiculous WomanTM (she is, herself, a ridiculous woman).
Her unpublished collection of short stories The Phenomenal Funeral Formula and Other Eulogies was a finalist for the 2025 University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize. She is at work on a bisexual haunted church novel.
Literary Influences
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