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, 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, and a contributing writer for SYFY WIRE, IGN, Paste Magazine and others. She is a TCA member and an adjunct professor of Radio, Television & Film at Rowan University. With Paul Terry, Bennett co-wrote several bestsellers including 2021's 'The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Amazon Best Book of 2013: 'Fringe: September's Notebook,' as well as '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. A member of the Television Critic's Association, she covers TV as a U.S. Editor for the world's premiere sci-fi/fantasy publication, SFX Magazine. She has written over 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,' plus 'SCI FI Magazine,' Today.com, Playboy.com, SYFY WIRE, Fandango/Movies.com, Fancast/Xfinity, Snakkle, TV Geek Army, WSJ Speakeasy, Newsarama, and VFXWorld.com. As a Sr. Editor & Producer for NBC/Universal's SYFY WIRE, Ms. Bennett covers TV and film, conducts on camera interviews and hosted and produced the official podcast for USA Network's sci-fi drama, 'Colony,' History's 'Project Blue Book,' and the retrospective of the impact of 'Lost' with Mo Ryan. As an adjunct professor, Bennett teaches 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.