Heather Taylor
| Heather Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 9, 1977 Edmonton, Alberta |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Other names | Heather Arness |
| Citizenship | Canadian British |
| Education | MA creative writing |
| Alma mater | City University |
| Occupation | Film director, writer, film producer, poet |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Awards | Wandsworth Community Champion, 2011 |
Heather Taylor (born 9 September 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian poet, writer, filmmaker, and social media and community specialist. Taylor studied music, acting and writing in western Canada.
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).
As a playwright, Taylor's work has been seen at the Tricycle Theatre, Soho Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, the Pleasance, Etcetera Theatre & Theatre 503 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.
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