Book news: if you’re looking for my debut poetry collection, Ask a Sex Worker!, CLASH Books and I have amicably ended our contract as they have pivoted to genre fiction. At this time, my manuscript is not currently under contract anywhere, but you can sign up here to be alerted when it becomes available for pre-order. For publication queries, please refer to my Contact page.

Stephanie Kaylor is a multi-genre writer and researcher based in the Hudson Valley. On hiatus as a full-time caregiver to her toddler, she has completed coursework for a PhD in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, focusing on mid-20th century US sex workers’ histories. Stephanie holds an MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University at Albany, where she received the departmental Outstanding Graduate Student award. Her debut poetry manuscript-in-progress interrogates the fraught nature of sex worker media representation and how it may be a site of greater exploitation (and subsequent resistance) than the act of commercial exchange.

Stephanie’s poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the recipient of fellowships from Hedgebrook and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has participated in the Tin House Summer Workshop. Currently, she is a Poetry Reader and Creative Non-Fiction Reader at ANMLY. Formerly, she served as a panelist for the 2023 Newfound Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, Reviews Editor for Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Managing Editor of Five:2:One Magazine.

Stephanie’s teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate coursework in Feminist Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Media Studies. A longtime advocate for sex workers’ rights, she curates the Sex Workers Archival Project, a primary source share.