Caitlin R Taylor

Assistant Director of the Publishing Lab

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. She has worked with nonprofit press Milkweed Editions, 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 and the Assistant Director of the Publishing Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her fiction, book reviews, and interviews can be found or are forthcoming in Terrain.org, the Greensboro Review, CRAFT Literary, Cotton Xenomorph, Pacifica, Adroit, HaveHasHad, Moon City Review, the Alabama Writers Forum, and Southern Humanities Review online.

Education

MFA in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington
BA in English, Wingate University

Specialization in Teaching

Book Design (Cover and Interior)
Developmental Editing
Literary Magazine Publishing
Book Publishing

Research Interests

Book Design
Book Publishing
Speculative and Fabulist Women's Fiction
Southern Fiction

Professional Service

Assistant Art Director for Ecotone magazine
Design support for Chautauqua magazine