About Taylor
Books have always been her best friends, so a life devoted to reading seemed like an unbeatable dream. She spent the next 9 years reading as many books as she could get her hands on, then studied English and minored in French at UC Berkeley and read a ton more. Her college years as a tutor in a 4th/5th grade class set her heart on making books for the best thinkers around—kids—and an internship at Bloomsbury confirmed that life as an editor was indeed all it had been cracked up to be (what a sentence!).
Taylor devoted the first decade-plus of her career to authors, illustrators, kids, and books at Chronicle Books. Now she is the executive editor of Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House. Taylor tries her best to make books that are highly attentive and without condescension to the kid reader. She devotes her energy to helping her creators make each book the best possible version of itself. And she cares very deeply about publishing books that are welcoming and friendly to as many types of kids as possible, in hopes of making it easy for any child to consider herself a reader—no matter how often, when, or why she chooses to pick up a book.
Taylor wanted to be a kids’ book editor starting when she was 13.
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