Ashley P. Taylor
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“I really want to reiterate how impressive both of your pieces are. They show a depth of internal thinking that I think is quite remarkable and vastly mature when it comes to creative nonfiction. Your ability to use a reflective voice when considering the past is both skillful and at times, spellbinding. . . . [“Dinner Theater”] operates with a freshness and a nuance that isn't widely seen.”
– Devin Kelly, author of the poetry collections Blood on Blood (Unknown Press), and In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen (Civil Coping Mechanisms), writing of “Public Art” (LUMINA Online Journal, 2015) and “Dinner Theater”  (Black Rabbit Review) in 2013, as nonfiction editor of LUMINA. 

Oranges and Art: A Drash

Lilith (Spring 2022): Being Chana

Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Transableism, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Me

Black Rabbit Review: Dinner Theater

Hazlitt: Toward My Own Definition of Disability
* ​listed as notable in Best American Essays 2020

Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Memory Palace
* listed as notable in Best American Essays 2019

Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Pollyanna Problems: On Katharine Butler Hathaway's The Little Locksmith and the Pitfalls of Excessive Optimism

The Brooklyn Rail: Florida Records: review of Sarah Gerard's Sunshine State: Essays

Entropy Magazine: A Life Story
* listed as notable in Best American Essays 2018

Catapult: Für Bess: On Neighbors, Music Parties, and Growing Up

Entropy Magazine: After the Essay
* listed as notable in Best American Essays 2017

Catapult Community: The Writer As Imaginary Friend

Catapult Community: The Unknowable: Writers On Death

The Brooklyn Rail: Seeking Grace: review of Sarah L. Kaufman's The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life

Catapult: Down the Rabbit Hole

Braindecoder:​ Crying: An Exploration
* listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016

Volume 1 Brooklyn: Middles

LUMINA Online Journal Issue No. 4: Public Art
This essay was also a finalist in LUMINA's nonfiction contest in 2013.

The Brooklyn Rail: The Frontier's Finale: review of Margaret Lazarus Dean's Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight 

The Brooklyn Rail: Peter Pan: the Ultimate Alt-Bro

Hyperallergic: In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide - interview with Quintan Ana Wikswo

Crenshaw Seeds: Menagerie

Hyperallergic: Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

The Brooklyn Rail: When Being Bad Is Good 

Nieman Storyboard: "Why's this so good?" No. 95: Patrick Radden Keefe and the loaded gun

The Brooklyn Rail: Mrs. Brown's Furniture

The Brooklyn Rail: Ceci N'est Pas Un Bateau

SciArt in America (April 2014): Intrinsic Romance: A Review of "4Chambers"

The Brooklyn Rail: The Author Would Go On To Repeat Herself

SciArt in America: The Art of the Brain

Crenshaw Seeds: A Letter To Virginia Woolf About Writing For A Living

Crenshaw Seeds: "I Just Called To Say I--": Music Box

Scienceline.org: Guernsey of Bergen Street

Crenshaw Seeds: Bleeding In Style

Huff Post: Learning the Art of Losing: A Response to Taylor Cotter's Quarter-Life Crisis

Talking Writing: "Half-Publishing" to Respect My Father's Privacy

Bagel with the Bards: Arnold

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