taylor hickney

Born in Dallas, Taylor Hickney is a writer, editor, and teacher in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from the New School, where she studied under Marie-Helene Bertino, Sigrid Nunez, and Darcey Steinke; afterward, she pursued a certificate in copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking from NYU. Her own fiction and journalism have appeared in X-R-A-Y magazine, World Literature Today, D magazine, Boyd Street magazine, Fiction Southeast, the Aster Review, and RoundUpZine. In 2018, she was long listed for Room magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest. She likes to read and write about queerness, generational trauma, and mother- and daughter-hood. She has a complicated relationship to her Texas roots and loves her Siberian husky named Jagger.