Taylor Banks is a recent graduate of the New Writers Project at UT Austin where she received her MFA and worked under the tutelage of Elizabeth McCracken and Claire Vaye Watkins. Her short fiction has received awards from both the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest and Glimmer Train's Fiction Open Contest. She is currently part of the Futurescapes Writers Workshop where she has worked with author Elizabeth Bear and agent/editor Deidre Knight.