03/05/2026
The director of the School of Letters, Justin Taylor, will be leading another exciting summer at Sewanee. We are thrilled to announce that he will be teaching the Forms of Fiction course!
Taylor is the author of four books of fiction, including the 2024 novel Reboot, published by Pantheon Books. In a New York Times review, Joshua Ferris described the book as “a performance full of wit and rigor freed of the familiar polarizing semantics, making legible something the actual streaming-posting-retweeting world, with its relentless pace and all-too-real stakes, can easily obscure…” In 2020, he published his memoir entitled Riding with the Ghost, Lauren Groff said the memoir was “gorgeously layered and deeply felt.” His other fiction includes the story collections Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (2010), Flings (2014), and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy (2011). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, BOMB, the Sewanee Review, and Bookforum. Taylor and Adam Wilson co-authored the original screenplay Last Days of Basic Cable.
Taylor received his BA from the University of Florida and his MFA from The New School. He has taught graduate and undergraduate writing in programs across the U.S., including Columbia University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Montana.
