@taylorbyas.bsky.social
PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her www.taylorbyas.com
Thank you friends!!!!!
We love to hear it: contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was listed one of the TOP FIVE poetry collections of 2025 by @electricliterature.com! 👏 🎉
🖤 Dr. Taylor Byas, PhD (@taylorbyas.bsky.social) “Resting Bitch Face”
🤎 Angela Shanté (instagram.com/authorangela...) “The Unboxing of a Black Girl”
🖤 Tramaine Suubi (instagram.com/tramainesuubi) “Stages”
🤎 Mia S. Willis (instagram.com/poetinthehat) “the space between men”
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Reach out & ask... I've been on podcasts, interview/reading series that I didn't know much about until I started watching/listening before I sent queries. Look at what peers are doing... For instance, I found out about @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social from listening to @taylorbyas.bsky.social .
Thank you, love!!!
✨ Support small press authors. Some Bookshop.org recommendations:
Chloe Clark, EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Taylor Byas, RESTING BITCH FACE
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
Michelle Peñaloza, ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS
Asa Drake, MAYBE THE BODY
@asaldrake.bsky.social
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We love starting the day with spotlights. Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was featured in a @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social must-read list! 📚 buff.ly/Exncjv6
Please sign up to see these three amazing poets read their work with @notatawp.bsky.social: @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social will be reading with us on Monday at 7pm.
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This is tomorrow night!
Register here to see @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social
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TONIGHT!
Join us at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
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#SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #SWWIMReadingSeries
Join us next week for NAWP's incredible November reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and
@toosiewatson.bsky.social!
Hit the RSVP link!
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This week's Friday Five is live!
Music from Snocaps, Claire Rousay, @chatpileband.bsky.social
+ Hayden Pedigo
Words by @taylorbyas.bsky.social and Annie Proulx
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Join us Thursday, November 13 at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
XO
SWWIM Team
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#SWWIMEveryDay
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.
Now let’s get to work.
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NAWP November reading has a powerhouse lineup with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social!
To join us, hit that RSVP link below.
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New reviews live today in SoFloPoJo's 39th issue:
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
Resting Bitch Face
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
The Parachutist
Jameela F. Dallis's
Encounters For the Living and the Dead
@riverriverbooks.bsky.social
and
Judith H. Montgomery's
The Ferry Keeper
Need anymore motivation?? It’s my BIRTHDAY! Come hang out with us!!!
What do you need? You need to know about this amazing @notatawp.bsky.social reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social next month! Register now:
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Very very excited for this!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
“There is a moment when my aloneness / is flayed down to something animal, the bullish man in my mind for years. My / body still capable of rising to a cold wind or a warm hand. I’m sorry, / where are my / manners?”
This poem “A Grammar of Loneliness” by @taylorbyas.bsky.social gets me, gutted me.
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This whole thread has made my day!!! Thank you so much for reading RBF with such fervor 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️
Always love seeing guest's works out in the wild!! Spotted @taylorbyas.bsky.social twice while walking around Lawrence, KS.
Omg!!
First installment of e•pon•y•mous available on my Substack! Was so honored to have this convo with my good friend @taylorbyas.bsky.social , please give it a listen when you have the chance!
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“I had worked hard for nearly two years…”
Author copies are here and I’m thrilled!! Grateful to @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social for the cover, @taylorbyas.bsky.social / @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social / Warren Longmire for blurbs, and of course Holly at @interstellarflight.bsky.social for picking it up!!
Ahhh thank you!!!!