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Taylor Swift Is Related to This Famous Tortured Poet, Ancestry Reveals

The singer's distant relation reveal comes a month before she's due to kick off her 'Tortured Poets Department' era.

The genealogy company shared with ET that it used its vast collection of online historical records to discover a family connection between Swift and the iconic American poet Emily Dickinson. "If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson's great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that's me writing in the Quill genre," she said at the time, accepting the award in person at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville along with hitmaker Ashley Gorley, who was named Songwriter of the Decade for his catalog that includes 63 chart-topping hits. The announcement came amid ongoing red herrings from the star, who many fans believed had been hinting at an imminent Reputation (Taylor's Version) drop.

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