Sonora Taylor is the award-winning author of several books and short stories. Her books include  Little Paranoias: Stories, Seeing Things, and Without Condition. She also co-edited Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology with Nico Bell. Her short stories have been published by Rooster Republic Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Ghost Orchid Press, and others.

Her short stories and books frequently appear on “Best of the Year” lists. In 2020, she won two Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards: one for Best Novel (Without Condition) and one for Best Short Story Collection (Little Paranoias: Stories). In 2022, her short story, “Eat Your Colors,” was selected by Tenebrous Press to appear in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Vol. 1. In 2024, her nonfiction essay, “Anything But Cooking, Please,” was a Top 15 finalist in Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club essay contest.

Taylor is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and serves on the board of directors of Scares That Care.

Her latest short story collection, Recreational Panic, is now available from Cemetery Gates Media. Her next novella, Errant Roots, will be out October 15, 2024 from Raw Dog Screaming Press.

She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and a rescue dog.