A. R. Taylor is a playwright, humorist, and fiction writer. Early on, she turned her Ph.D. thesis into a book called Male Novelists And Their Female Voices: Literary Masquerades, and it went on to become a finalist for the Henry Murray Award at Harvard. She has published in The Cynic Magazine, The Pedantic Monthly, The Berkeley Insider, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud, among others. In addition, her stories have been featured in the New Short Fiction Series, and she was head writer on two Emmy award-winning series for public television. Other awards include the Writers Foundation of America Gold Statuette for Comedy, the NBC New Comedy Writer awards, and the De Golyer Prize in American Studies. Oddly enough, Taylor has also performed at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York.