A. R. Taylor (a.k.a. “Anne”) graduated from Stanford and has her Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley. She has been trying not to disgrace her respective schools ever since.
Early on, while a teacher of English literature at Oregon State University, she wrote a number of prize-winning essays on American film, and her book Male Novelists and Their Female Voices: Literary Masquerades was nominated for the Henry Murray Award at Harvard.
Later she wrote for public television and won two Emmys for her work. Up until the mid ‘90’s, she toiled in documentaries and industrial films. At that point she became bi-coastal, appearing at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York and writing plays in Los Angeles: Up the Nile, Hell’s Cuisinart, and Bender.
Her fiction has appeared in Rosebud, Red Rock Review, the Berkeley Insider, and the Pedantic Monthly and was featured in the New Short Fiction Series. Forthcoming from the Grabhorn Institute is a story called “Role Model.”
In 2006 FX commissioned a television pilot from her book The Good Girl’sRevenge.
Taylor’s new novel is called Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion.
