Biography

Darlene R. Taylor is a Master Instructor and co-faculty advisor to the Sterling A. Brown English Society at Howard University. She is also a multidisciplinary artist and fiction writer. Her creative works in fiction and mixed media collage, examine silences in historical archives and reclaim narratives of Black life. She holds a BA from American University and an MFA from Stonecoast, University of Southern Maine and serves on its Writing for Social Justice Initiative. 

Taylor holds creative fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Community of Writers, Kweli, Callaloo, and Kimbilio. A cultural arts advocate, she promotes literary citizenship through community-based organizations and libraries. She is a contributor to How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill, and her stories appear in journals and anthologies including Feminist Studies, Kweli Journal, Public History Commons, Portland Monthly and LA Parent. She is the inaugural Aminah Robinson Writer in Residence at the Columbus Museum of Art. Her visual works have been featured by the D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities and in solo exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art (2022) and Academy Art Museum (2024). Her poems and collage are published in HEIRLOOMS (2024).