Taaffe was first published in 2001, with "Shade and Shadow" in Not One of Us, "Turn of the Century, Jack-in-the-Green" in Mythic Delirium, and "Constellations, Conjunctions" in Maelstrom Speculative Fiction.
[2] She served as a co-editor in the Poetry Department of Strange Horizons magazine alongside AJ Odasso and Romie Stott until 2016.
Taaffe proposed the name Vanth for the moon of dwarf planet Orcus to its discoverer, Michael E. Brown, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
She also lists Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Jane Yolen, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Kathe Koja, Peter S.
[5] Taaffe's collection Forget the Sleepless Shores was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Speculative Fiction.