She completed her doctorate at the Humboldt University, in Berlin, where she studied bilingual couples in 18th century French novels.
[2] In 2015, Taylor published a translation of Sascha Arango's novel, The Truth and Other Lies (Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen).
[3] In 2016, Taylor won the Goethe-Institut award for an excerpt of her translation Momente der Klarheit by Jackie Thomae (Hanser Berlin).
[5] In 2018, The Guardian praised her "sure-footed" translation of Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit (Orion)[6] and listed it as one of the best books of 2018.
[9] In 2019, she published an English translation of German author and historian Florian Huber's best-selling account of mass suicides in Germany towards the end of World War II, titled Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945.