Tara Bennett

Tara Bennett is a New York Times bestselling author and entertainment journalist. As an author, or co-author, she's written more than 30 official movie and TV companion books including The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Making of Wicked: The Amazafying Behind-the-Scenes Magic of the Films Wicked & Wicked: For Good, The Art of Ryan Meinerding, Art of Avatar: The Way of Water. Sons of Anarchy: The Official Collector's Edition, Outlander: The Official TV Series Companions, The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China, Fringe: September's Notebook (an Amazon Best Book of 2013) and many more. Tara is also the U.S. Editor for SFX Magazine. He bylines include: NBC Insider, SYFY WIRE, IGN, Paste Magazine, The A.V. Club, Cartoon Brew, and others.

She is a Television Critic Association member and was an adjunct professor of Radio, Television & Film for 16 years at Rowan University.

With Paul Terry, Bennett co-wrote several bestsellers including The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Art of Ryan Meinerding, Fringe: September's Notebook, The Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China, The Art of Big Trouble in Little China, The Blacklist: Elizabeth Keen's Dossier, Sleepy Hollow: Creating Heroes, Demons and Monsters, and the official Lost Encyclopedia for the seminal Bad Robot TV show.

She has written more than a thousand interviews and features for print and online publications, including the official magazines for The Walking Dead, Sleepy Hollow, Once Upon a Time, Grimm, Lost, 24, Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also, SCI FI Magazine, Total Film, Star Wars: Insider, Today, Playboy, SYFY WIRE, Fandango/Movies, Cartoon Brew, Fancast/Xfinity, Snakkle, TV Geek Army, WSJ Speakeasy, Newsarama, and VFXWorld.

Ms. Bennett also hosted and produced the official podcast for USA Network's sci-fi drama Colony, History Channel's Project Blue Book, and SYFY WIRE's retrospective of the impact of Lost with Mo Ryan.

As an adjunct professor, Bennett taught writing for television and film studies classes for Rowan University. She developed a showrunners writing class which has featured guest speakers such as 'Fringe's' Jeff Pinkner and 'Scrubs' Bill Lawrence.