About Taylor Driggers
Hello, and welcome to my website! I am an independent scholar, author, and freelance editor specializing in fantasy literature, theology, gender, and sexuality. Originally from a small town in South Carolina, I moved to the United Kingdom in 2013 to begin my postgraduate studies. In July 2020, I graduated with a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow, where my thesis focused on fantasy literature’s potential to offer queer and feminist re-visionings of Christian theology and religious practices. This project eventually became by first book, Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), part of Bloomsbury’s Perspectives on Fantasy series. The book was a finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies.
More recently, I am interested in histories of queerness in fantasy literature and the critical narratives surrounding them. In 2024 I was awarded a Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship by the University of Oregon’s Special Collections and University Archives to fund a project on how the reading and archiving practices depicted in fantasy narratives can help queer researchers navigate silence and ‘hiddenness’ in the archive. This project, provisionally titled Hidden Kinships: Fantasy Literature and the Queer Archive, will likely form the basis for my next book and features analysis of work by a diverse range of authors including Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, Laurie J. Marks, Elizabeth A. Lynn, and Sofia Samatar.
I have a background in academic research and teaching and have recently begun working as a freelance editor. I am currently Advisory Editor of the History of Earthsea series edited by Michael Everson, the first volume of which is forthcoming from Evertype in Spring 2026. This series compiles select draft manuscripts and publisher correspondence for each book in Le Guin’s Earthsea series, revealing the process behind creating the world of Earthsea, the characters who inhabit it, and their stories. I am also available for shorter-term copyediting, proofreading, and other editorial work; for enquiries please get in touch via the contact form on this website.
I am very passionate about public engagement and have given a number of talks, presentations, and workshops derived from my research at fan conventions, literary festivals, LGBTQ+ support groups at churches, university chapels, and interfaith organizations. Visit the ‘Talks and Lectures’ and ‘Public Engagement and Media’ pages on this site for more details!
I live in Glasgow, Scotland. When not writing or editing you can find me taking long walks in the park, trawling used bookshops, and singing in my local community choir, Govanhill Voices.
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