Stephanie Kaylor is a multi-genre writer and researcher based in the Hudson Valley. 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 and support from Hedgebrook, Brooklyn Poets, Tin House, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has 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 has collaborated with workers’ rights organizations on local, national, and global levels, and is curator of the Sex Workers Archival Project, a primary source share.