A. R. Taylor has published in the Los Angeles Times, the Southwest Review, Pedantic Monthly, The Cynic online magazine, the Berkeley Insider, So It Goes, the Vonnegut Library Magazine on Humor, Red Rock Review, and Rosebud, among others. After winning a Writers Foundation of America award in Comedy for her play Up The Nile, Taylor appeared at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York and Tongue & Groove in Hollywood. In addition, she was head writer on two Emmy winning series for public television. Her debut novel, Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion appeared in 2014 and won a gold medal for Best Regional Fiction at the IPPY Awards, also named a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards. She attended the Community of Writers in 2011.