Alexandria Taylor is a native Chicagoan and a current graduate student at Columbia College in the Creative Writing Fiction program. She also holds an M.A. degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages). She has a few years of traveling abroad under her belt and tries to bring a fresh perspective to her writing about the experiences of African American women, whether it's describing their everyday experiences or spicing it up with magical realism or Afro-Futurism.