Darlene R. Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist. Her writing has been published in anthologies and journals. She is a contributor to How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill published by HarperCollins and the inaugural Aminah Robinson Writer-in-Residence at the Columbus Museum of Art. As the solo exhibition artist at the Academy Art Museum in Maryland, she created and published HEIRLOOMS, an art book and works of visual art. Taylor holds fellowships with the American Antiquarian Society, American Association of University Women, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities. She believes in literary citizenship and has served on leadership boards at The Clifton House, Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, and Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Social Justice Initiative.