Taylor Steele is an NYC born-and-based poet, playwright, comedy writer, and performer.

Her love for words has led to her poetry being published in Apogee Journal, HEArt Journal, BOAAT Press, and more. Her new one-hour play, Damages, will be featured during ANT Fest at Ars Nova June 2023. Her chapbook “Dirty.Mouth.Kiss” is available on Pizza Pi Press, and her newest collection “Drowning in Light” was available at Platypus Press. Her comedy pilot 35 Bleak St. was a finalist in the 2022 Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest. Her short film eXcape was featured at OutFest Fusion. She is an internationally-ranked spoken word artist who has been featured on Huffington Post, Brooklyn Poets, Button Poetry and is a 2016 Pushcart Nominee. Taylor is currently a Staff Writer at BuzzFeed.

Taylor was awarded a residency at The Center at West Park, where she wrote and directed a new play in October 2019. She currently writes with CNT Productions, a production company championing marginalized voices off and on screen. She was script consultant on the multimedia theater project Is this love, or is it fantasy? created by musical artists Delune.

Taylor graduated with honors from The New School with a degree in Culture & Media. During her time there, she worked as Writer’s Assistant to Janine Ditullio and studied under Laurie Collyer, Caveh Zahedi, and Zishan Ugurlu.

Taylor is a triple-Taurus who believes in the power of art to change, shape, and heal.