Annette Daniels Taylor, is an award winning theater artist, poet, and artist-filmmaker. The author of the children’s series The Marvelous Marvella J.Q: Marvella Finds Her Magic (west44books, 2022) about an Afro-latina who talks to animals, and her novels in verse, Shoot the Storm (west44books, 2022) and Dreams on Fire (west44books, 2018). As a filmmaker Annette’s cinematic poems are screened and exhibited internationally. Her poems are featured in The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries Buffalo, New York’s 15th Three Poems chapbook series. Other titles include Street Pharmacist and other poetic tales; and Hush now, poems to read aloud.

Annette teaches Writing for Broadcast at SUNY Buffalo State College Communication Department and Acting with D’Youville University’s Dramatic Theater Arts MFA program and is a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Employment Program.