Brandon Taylor (born 1989) is an American writer. Having initially studied biochemistry, he went on to receive fellowships for his writing from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction. His short stories and essays have been published in many outlets, and his first novel Real Life came out in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize