Brandon Taylor is the assistant editor of Electric Literature's recommended reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. He has received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kimbilio Fiction, and Tin House. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Amazon's Day One, Necessary Ficiton, Little Fiction, The Rumpus, Catapult, Out Magazine online, and elsewhere. This fall, he will begin his MFA in fiction at The Iowa Writers' Workshop.