I’M LEILA TAYLOR. I AM A WRITER AND DESIGNER IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

I HAVE 25+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER working for agencies big and small with clients from Fortune 500 companies to museums and non-profits. I’m CURRENTLY CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, where I’ve been since 2015. I HAVE TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS IN NEW YORK AND RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IN NEW JERSEY. I HAVE A B.S. IN DESIGN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, an MFA IN GRAPHIC DESIGN FROM YALE UNIVERSITY, and an MA in liberal studies from the New School of Social Research, where I began writing. 

My writing 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 AND AMERICA’S GOTHIC SOUL, her essays have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, The Repeater Book of the Occult, The New Urban Gothic, and Bitter Root Vol. 3: Legacy. She’s given illustrated talks for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, morbid anatomy, THE COLLECTIVE FOR RADICAL DEATH STUDIES.