Terence Taylor was born a child, and has remained one for most of his adult life. Born in New York City, he spent his youth exploring the United States and Europe as an Air Force brat. After graduating college he specialized in writing and producing children's television for almost two decades. His creative efforts in film and television have been recognized with a New York Emmy and awards from the International Film and Television Festival of New York and Chicago International Film Festival.

Since returning to New York in 2001(after ten years in LA), his fiction for adults has been published in all three of Brandon Massey's "Dark Dreams" anthologies, the first collections of horror and suspense stories exclusively by black writers. He recently completed his first novel, "Bite Marks", a vampire story set in the 80's New York downtown art world/club scene. Terence is currently working on a novelistic anthology, "Playtime" -- based on his first published story, "Plaything" -- and a second novel, "Lucid Tea", a satiric dark fantasy set in contemporary New York about a cable deal with the Devil.

Terence has written for East and West coast studios: Nickelodeon, Disney, Universal Cartoons, Marvel Animation, Hanna-Barbera, The Children's Television Workshop, DIC, Scholastic Television, Film Roman, ABC, Jumbo Pictures, Porchlight Entertainment, Lancit Media, Don Cornelius Productions, Hearst Animation Productions and Sun Woo. His work has appeared and continues to air on PBS stations WGBH, WQED, WNET, KCET, SCETV and on HBO Kids, Fox Kids, the Learning Channel and Nickelodeon.

He has contributed his talents to programs for pre-schoolers - Gullah Gullah Island, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Dooley & Pals, I Spy, The Puzzle Place, Pinwheel House; for middle school ages - Arthur, Gadget Boy and Heather, 101 Dalmatians, The Woody Woodpecker Show, Sonic Underground, The Book of Virtues and 3-2-1-CONTACT; and for teenagers - Spiderman, Mortal Kombat, You Can't Do That On Television, Dumb and Dumber, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century and Livewire. Terence has also written and co-produced industrial/educational films for such corporate clients as Ballpark Franks, Parkay, Lincoln Mercury, Bank of America, the American Heart Association and Domino's Pizza.

He's twice been a granting panelist for the Independent Television Service, and judged children's programs for the ACE awards. Terence won his New York Emmy for co-creating and writing on "High Feather", a nutritional series for children and an International Film and Television Festival of New York award for his work as a Producer of promotions and fundraising at WNET-13.

Terence has also worked extensively as a graphic artist/designer and digital animator. He was creative director, graphic artist and digital animator on CD-ROM adaptations of five Mercer Mayer children's books, and designed interstitial graphics for Microsoft, Parkay and Ballpark Franks. For the last two years, under his own company name, Bedlam Ink, Terence's primary graphics client has been The Skillman Foundation in Detroit, designing annual reports, display graphics, a bi-monthly newsletter and weekly full-page children's ads for the Detroit News and Free Press.

He designed animated maps, archival photographs and opening/closing credit sequences for Thomas Allen Harris' acclaimed documentary, "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela", which premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and will air in the fall of 2006 on P.O.V. on PBS. Terence also designed animation for "Fabulous", a documentary on the story of queer cinema for the Independent Film Channel, which premiered at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. He is currently designing animated graphics for IFC's Indie Sex series.

Terence Taylor is a member of the Writer's Guild of America East, and received a BS in Communication Arts and Science from St. John's University, where he graduated Cum Laude. He lives in Brooklyn, where he intends to happily grow old at his computer, writing stories he loves.