Heather Taylor

• Name — Heather Taylor • Birthplace — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • Other Names — Heather Arness • Citizenship — Canadian British American • Education — MA creative writing • Alma Mater — City University • Occupation — Film director, writer • Years Active — 2002–present • Awards — Wandsworth Community Champion, 2011

In the UK, she was a featured performer at events/ venues including Spit Lit, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Borders, Poetry Café, Book Slam, RADA, Camberwell Arts Festival, Harrow Festival, Runnymede International Literature Festival, Penned in the Margins, and Glastonbury Festival. She has also performed at the Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and The Guardian Newsroom as part of the Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa project and has been a member of Apples and Snakes and Malika's Poetry Kitchen. From 2005 to 2007, Taylor toured the two-woman poetry and music show Accents on Words with Aoife Mannix. It was launched at the Poetry Café in London in November 2005 and was performed at a number of venues, including The British Library with BBC Radio London, BAC with Apples and Snakes, The Aran Islands (Ireland) and India with the British Council for Mumbai Poetry Live. In December 2007, Heather Taylor took part in first Belgrade International Poetry festival "Beogradski Trg". Past projects also include poetry and performance with the BlackFriars Settlement (girls aged 11–16) and the Women's Library. She has two full poetry collections: Horizon & Back (Tall Lighthouse, UK, 2005) and Sick Day Afternoons (Treci Trg, Serbia, 2009). In 2026, Taylor performed a new piece written for Inua Ellams: Falling Into You R.A.P. Party at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. It was a night of poetry and music inspired by the 30th anniversary of Celine Dion's seminal album, Falling Into You.

As a playwright, Taylor's work has been seen at the Tricycle Theatre, Soho Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, the Pleasance, Etcetera Theatre and Theatre503 in London as well as New Place in St. Albans, G12 in Glasgow as part of the NewWriting NewWorlds Festival. She graduated with an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from City University. Her play Prisms was the Sunday Play on Resonance FM, 16 December 2010.

Taylor was the Director of Creative Strategy at The Economist from 2015 to 2018. She has held executive roles at Weber Shandwick and Ogilvy and was the North American Editorial Director for Econsultancy. She was the former Corporate Community Manager for the BBC, social media and PR manager for Giffgaff and the former editor and filmmaker for PayPal's Let's Talk social media and consumer advocacy website. While in that role, in addition to PayPal related topics, she regularly produced video interviews with experts in mobile, finance, social media and web development. In 2011, she was listed by Brand Republic as one of the top 200 most influential bloggers. Taylor organised the cleanup in Clapham Junction after the London Riots in August 2011 and led what is now referred to as the Broom Army. She won a Wandsworth Community Champion award for her efforts.

• Year — Title — Notes — Credits • 2008 — The Last Thakur — Feature film — Writer • 2009 — Wild West Dream — Short Doc — Director/ Producer • Stay Safe — Short — Writer • 2011 — Raptured – season 1 — Web series — Writer/ Director/ Producer • Book of the Dead — Short — Writer • 2012 — Home Baked Stories — Web series — Director/ Producer • The Last Job — Short — Writer • 2016 — Stitched — Short — Director/ Writer • 2019 — Pay to Stay — Short — Director/ Writer • 2021 — Anomaly — Podcast — Creator/ Writer • Lethal Love — TV Movie — Writer • 2022 — The Hardy Boys (2020 TV series) — TV series — Story Editor Season 2 Co-writer Ep. 202 (Conflicting Reports) & 208 (A Midnight Scare) • 2023 — You Feeling This? — Podcast — Writer/ Director Ep.9 (Breaking Up) • 2025 — Revival (TV series) — TV series — Co-Producer Season 1 Writer Ep. 105 (Triage) • 2026 — A Little Park Music — TV Movie — Co-Writer

• Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen (2022), • A View from the Lighthouse (2009) • City Lighthouse (2009), • Storm Between Fingers (2007), • His Rib (2007), • This Poem Is Sponsored By... (2007), • Malika's Poetry Kitchen's Handmade Fire (2006), • Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology X (2005), • Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (2005), • Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes & Under (2005), • Tall-lighthouse Poetry Review (2004), • In the Criminal's Cabinet (2004), • Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry (2005),

• Sick Day Afternoons (Popodnevna Bolovanja) (2009), • Horizon and Back (2005), • She Never Talks of Strangers (2003), a chapbook,.