Olivia Taylor

Education

Palm Beach Atlantic University, B.A in English, 2019; Baylor University, M.A. in English, 2021

Research Interests

Olivia’s research interests are Shakespeare reception, detective fiction, mermaid literature, creative writing 

Selected Publications

Creative writing: Her novel, Welcome to the Paradise Motel, was published by Apprentice House Press in 2025.
Poems, including "Fruit Stands" and "Scent of Scotland" published in The Lamp graduate literary journal 2022 
Academic publications: Review of “Booth” by Karen Joy Fowler, in The Mark Twain Journal, 61, no. 2, Fall 2023 
“Virginia Woolf and the Quest for a Woman Writer’s Utopia.” SAMLA News 38 (2018): 9-11
"'I'm Just Like You, You're Just Like Me': Barbie, Mark Twain, and The Princess and the Pauper" in the Mark Twain Journal, vol. 63, no. 1, Spring 2025, pp 109-139

Courses Taught

ENG 1310 2021-2022 at Baylor University; colloquiums on creative writing, Agatha Christie, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 
ENG 2310: American Literary Cultures

Awards

Beall Poetry Festival's Poetry in the Arts, Inc. Dr. James E. Barcus Prize for the poem "Hibiscus" in 2020