Biography
Melinda Hsu Taylor is an American television writer and producer. She graduated from Harvard College and earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University. She began her career as a story analyst and staff writer before working as a writer and story editor on series including Medium (2005) and Women's Murder Club (2007).
Taylor joined the writing staff of Lost (2004) as a co-producer and writer for its fifth season in 2009, co-writing episodes such as "The Little Prince" and "Some Like It Hoth". The season's writing team received a Writers Guild of America nomination for best drama series. She was promoted to producer for the sixth and final season, for which she shared an Emmy Award. She also wrote for Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Falling Skies (2011) and Touch (2012).
She later contributed as a writer and producer on The Vampire Diaries (2009) and The Gifted (2017). Taylor served as showrunner of Nancy Drew (2019), on which she also directed, and was co-creator and showrunner of Tom Swift (2022).
