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Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate is also the winner of the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. The collection has been featured in Essence Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine. Courtney lives in Decatur, Georgia where she is working on her second book.