Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling Atmosphere tells a gripping love story between two women in NASA’s Astronaut Corps in the 1980s. This spring, Reid spoke publicly for the first time about being bisexual in an interview with Time.
“I think I feel a little freer,” Reid said, as she’d previously faced some criticism from those who assumed she was straight for writing sapphic love stories like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
“I think probably a lot of people who are bisexual can relate to the feeling that people are going to tell you who you are and that you don't know who you are,” she tells Out.
A prolific writer with seven novels to her name since 2013, Reid’s 2019 peek inside a ’70s rock band with an enigmatic female lead singer, Daisy Jones & the Six, gained new fans when it became a hit Prime Video series in 2023.
“I know for a fact that there are queer people who don’t feel safe to come out, who are expressing who they really are in their art,” Reid says. “I hope that we can create a world where they are safe to do so, and that we don’t require them to put themselves in an unsafe position to tell a story.” @tjenkinsreid
