Era Writer
Author - Creative- Librarian
Stories by Taylre R. Malloy
Children’s Picture Books | YA & Adult Science Fiction
I became a writer when I was seven years old.
I can still remember sitting in my elementary school library, completely in love with the books around me. Somewhere between getting lost in my favorite stories and filling pages in English class, I decided I wanted to create stories of my own.
So I did, with loose sheets of construction paper, crayons, and a very big imagination. For about an hour each day, I disappeared into whatever world I was creating. I filled the pages with stories, shapes, bright colors, and hand-drawn illustrations that, in my seven-year-old mind, absolutely belonged alongside the words. The pictures and stories were inseparable. I wasn't thinking about becoming an author back then. I just knew there was something magical about taking an idea that existed only in my imagination and turning it into something I could hold in my hands.
I brought those little stories to my school librarian, who became one of the first people to make me feel like my words were worth something. She gave my creations a place on the top shelf of the library, and to seven-year-old me, that felt like the biggest accomplishment in the world.
What I didn't know then was that one day, I would become that librarian. For the past seven years, I've worked in a public library as a teen librarian and outreach coordinator. Being surrounded by books has always felt natural to me, but getting to share them with young readers has made that love even more meaningful. I get to see kids discover characters they recognize themselves in, find stories they can't put down, and sometimes begin creating stories of their own.
Through all of it, stories and books have remained one of the deepest loves of my life. Maybe that's why I never stopped writing. Those construction-paper stories eventually became real books, and I've now had the joy of publishing seven children's picture books.
There's something incredibly meanigful about knowing that the stories I once created on construction paper eventually became books that other children can hold, read, and find on library shelves, just as I did when I was a kid.
My seven-year-old self had no idea I'd grow up to become the librarian. I think I'd be pretty proud of where those construction-paper stories took me.
