Mika Taylor was a Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona.

Her work has been supported by scholarships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Wesleyan Writers Conference as well as residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, I Park, The Studios at Mass MoCA and the Vermont Studio Center. She’s received an Artistic Excellence Grant from the State of Connecticut Commission for the Arts, as well as grants from the University of Arizona, University of Wisconsin, and Eastern Connecticut State University.

Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Guernica, Ninth Letter, Diagram, and others.

She lives in Mansfield, Connecticut and is currently working on her first novel and a collection of short stories.