Leila Taylor is a writer, designer, and speaker in Brooklyn, New York whose professional and personal work centers on the written word.
With over 25 years of experience as a graphic designer, in her current role as Creative Director of BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, she shapes the creative vision of the institution, elevates the perception of the Library, and amplifies the voice of one of the largest public library systems in the country. For a complete CV, click here.
As a writer, she focuses on the intersection of history and horror and the gothic in contemporary culture. Author of SICK HOUSES: HAUNTED HOMES & THE ARCHITECTURE OF DREAD and DARKLY: BLACK HISTORY & AMERICA’S GOTHIC SOUL, her work has appeared in LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY, US: THE COMPLETE ANNOTATED SCREENPLAY, THE REPEATER BOOK OF THE OCCULT, THE NEW URBAN GOTHIC: GLOBAL GOTHIC IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, and the graphic novel BITTER ROOT. I’ve given illustrated talks Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies, Morbid Anatomy, Brooklyn Public Library’s Night in the Library, The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University, The International Gothic Association, The Collective for Radical Death Studies, The Occult Humanities Conference at New York University, and The House Of Know.