Meet Melissa

• Creator and writer of the popular blog Imagination Soup.
• Consultant and coach at Imagination Soup Consulting, consulting on communications, marketing, and children’s books.
• Former Communications Chair, Board of Directors for The Right Step, Inc., an adaptive riding barn in Littleton, Colorado.
• Children’s book author of Tova’s Sweet Solution (4/21/26, Red Comet Press).
• Former educator with an M.Ed. 
• Passionate advocate of children’s literacy.
• Mother of two daughters.
• Freelance writer with magazine articles for Parenting, Scholastic Parent and Child, USA Today Health, Colorado Expression, Colorado Parent, Denver Magazine, Mile High Sports Magazine, and FiberArts Magazine.
• Freelance online writer with articles on Parenting, Random House Brightly, Babble.com, Parenting.com, WorkingMother.com, Imagine Toys, Colorado Parent, and more.
• Former Book Editor-at-Large for Colorado Parent Magazine, 2 years.
• Learner with a growth mindset.

Melissa created and wrote the highly popular and award-winning learning blog Imagination Soup for parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians to share the best children’s books and playful learning resources.

In addition, Melissa recently launched Imagination Soup Consulting to support individuals and businesses with communications and marketing.

A mother of two girls and an award-winning educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master’s Degree in Global Education with expertise in early childhood, elementary education, literacy, and children’s books. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and preschool and trained teachers in best practices K-12.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Taylor has taught English as a Second Language, taught Spanish-speaking children in inner-city Denver Public Schools and in the federal migrant program, and served as a literacy trainer in underperforming schools for the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC). She was a four-time consecutive winner of Outstanding Teacher in Douglas County.

Melissa writes about education, learning, children’s literature, technology, and advocacy for publications online and in print, including Parenting.com, USA Today Health, The Writer, Scholastic Parent and Child, Working Mother.com, Babble.com, Colorado Parent Magazine, Denver Magazine. In 2010, she won the coveted Colorado delegate spot for Parenting Magazine’s Education and Learning Mom Congress. In January 2012, Entrepreneur magazine featured Taylor as the “’Trep of the Month.”