Background
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia, and was unschooled until age 13.
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She attended Brown University for a year and dropped out of graduate school at the age of 21 to pursue film making hands on with involvement with Miracle Tree and Persons of Interest.
Career
Taylor holds an Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the New School. She has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and State University of New York New Paltz. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including Dissent, n+1, Adbusters, The Baffler, The Nation, Salon, and The London Review of Books.
She joined Neutral Milk Hotel onstage for a number of shows in 2013 and 2014, playing guitar and accordion.
She is a vegan.
Taylor was active in the Occupy Movement and was the co-editor of Occupy!: An OWS-Inspired Gazette with Sarah Leonard of Dissent magazine and Keith Gessen of n+1. The broadsheet covered Occupy Wall Street in five issues over the course of the first year of the occupation and was later anthologized by Verso Books.
