A. R. Taylor graduated from Stanford and received her Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley.
Early on, while a teacher of English literature at Oregon State University, she wrote a number of prize-winning essays about 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. Up until the mid ‘90’s, she worked in documentaries and industrial films. At that point she became bi-coastal, performing at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York and writing plays in Los Angeles: Up the Nile, Hell’s Cuisinart, and Bender. In 2006 FX commissioned a television pilot from her book The Good Girl's Revenge.
Her fiction has appeared in ROSEBUD, Red Rock Review, the Berkeley Insider, Pedantic Monthly, and The Cynic Online Magazine. Individual stories have been performed in the New Short Fiction Series and at the Annenberg Center in Santa Monica.
Taylor’s new novel is called Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion.
