Heather Taylor is a Canadian writer & educator, whose writing has been published and performed throughout Europe & North America & she has been a host on Resonance FM & Sound Radio with guest slots on CKUA (Edmonton), CKUF (Victoria) & BBC London Radio. Her full collection horizon & back was published by Tall Lighthouse in October 2005.

She studied music, acting and writing in western Canada. After working on over 30 film and theatre productions both onstage and off, Heather began performing her own solo work in Vancouver and co-produced the multimedia showcase Skidrow Theatre with Silent Productions. In January 2002, Heather pulled up stakes and moved to London, England. Since arriving in the UK, she has been a featured performer at events/ venues including Borders, Poetry Café, Book Slam, RADA, Camberwell Arts Festival, Harrow Festival, Runnymede International Literature Festival, and Glastonbury. She has also performed at the Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol) and Guardian Newsroom as part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa project which will continue to tour through 2007. She is one of the founders of Practicum Theatre (www.practicumtheatre.com).

Recently Heather was touring the 2-woman poetry and music show, Accents on Words. It was launched at the poetry café in London in November 2005 and has since been performed at a number of venues, including The British Library with BBC Radio London, BAC with Apples and Snakes, The Aran Islands (Ireland) and India with the British Council for Mumbai Poetry Live.

Mannix and Taylor’s repertoire is aurally gorgeous; their voices perfectly matched as they inter-splice their respective poetry. Visually it’s arresting too; sometimes it’s formal and dramatic, with fragments of verse spoken in syncopation and graceful, choreographed movement. Other times it’s like having your two big sisters having a comfortable conversation. They bounce words and ideas off each other incessantly, a fabulous repartee of wisecracks that leavens the underlying pathos of memory and loss that many of the poems tonight have dealt with. -Sean Merrigan, Spoiled Ink

As a playwright, her work has been seen at the Tricycle, Soho Theatre, Greenwich, the Pleasance, & Theatre 503 in London as well as New Place in St. Albans, G12 in Glasgow as part of the NewWriting NewWorlds Festival and various venues in Canada.