TAYLOR MICHAEL

Taylor Michael joined Poets & Writers in August 2025. She is an arts and culture writer whose work has appeared in Belt Magazine, The Baffler, The Observer, All Arts, Artsy, ArtNews, and Hyperallergic. She is an associate editor at A Public Space and was the 2020 A Public Space editorial fellow. She was on the shortlist for the AICA-USA Art Critic Fellowship and participated in Critically Minded x NYT Cultural Critics Program. Her writing has been supported by the Southampton Writers Conference and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts and a BA in English and Africana Studies from Brown University.