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Stefan Bindley-Taylor is a Trinidadian-American author, musician, and educator born and raised in Maryland. His stories balance absurdist humor with real emotion to showcase characters from the Caribbean diaspora through a nuanced lens.

His recent and forthcoming work can be found in several outlets, including Chautauqua, The Common, Adda, and Brooklyn Rail. He is the winner of the 2025 Chautauqua Janus prize, the 2025 DISQUIET Flowers Fellowship, a 2025 Kimbilio Fellowship, the 2024 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Prize, a short-lister for the 2024 Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize, and a finalist for the PEN 2023 Emerging Voices Fellowship. 

Outside of writing, Stefan has been a performing musician for over a decade. He writes and performs in two projects: FISHLORD, a punk project, and Nafets, an alternative hip-hop project. He has amassed over 8 million streams worldwide and landed sync placements with Netflix, HBO, Hulu, BET+, The CW, and more.

He received an M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and he is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Virginia.