About Taylor Riley

Writer, Editor, Speaker, Teacher

Taylor Riley is a writer and journalist living in Louisville, Kentucky. She is formerly a news producer and features writer at the Louisville Courier Journal and editor at two weekly newspapers. She is now a full-time freelance journalist and English and creative writing professor. In fall 2020, she will begin her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. She received her MFA from Spalding University in May 2019. Taylor is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose work has been published by Refinery 29, USA TODAY, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, HerStry, Bluntly Magazine, Syndrome Magazine, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Eckleburg Review, The Write Launch, Riggwelter Press, as well as other national and international publications. She also serves as an advisor for the Wall Street Journal's Noted publication.

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Taylor provides services such as freelance writing and editing, consulting, tutoring, writing workshops and public speaking.