In 2006 she received her MA in creative writing at the Victoria University of Wellington.
[2] Taylor's first collection of short stories, Relief, was published in 2009 by Victoria University Press.
[3] Fiction by Taylor been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals including The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories,[4] Sport,[5] Turbine,[6] and Hue&Cry.
[9] While at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, Taylor won the 2006 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript Going Under: Stories (which was later published as Relief).
[11] In 2012 she received the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with David Lyndon Brown.