Taylor Sykes is the author of the novella Many Small Disasters. Her fiction has appeared in The Masters Review, Miracle Monocle, Hairstreak Butterfly Review, the anthologies The Horror is Us and Dreamland: Other Stories, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the James Hurst Prize for Fiction and a 35 in 35 Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Originally from northwest Indiana, she holds an MFA in fiction from North Carolina State University and teaches writing at UNC Asheville.