Emily Taylor is an independent scholar and writer based in the Upstate of South Carolina. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and is a specialist in Caribbean literature, Latinx literature, and postcolonial and feminist theory. She has published academic essays in Caribbean-Irish Connections, The Journal of West Indian Literature, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, The Southern Quarterly, and in the Cambridge series Caribbean Literature in Transition. She writes the newsletter Hot Feminism: Letters from South Carolina.