Timothy Taylor is a bestselling and award-winning author of seven book-length works of fiction and nonfiction. He emerged on the writing scene in 2000, when three of his short stories were selected for a single edition of the Journey Prize Anthology. His story “Doves of Townsend” won the Journey Prize that same year and was included in his collection of short fiction Silent Cruise, which was later named runner-up to the Danuta Gleed Award. Taylor’s first novel Stanley Park was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and was nominated for a Giller Prize, a Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and both Vancouver and BC Book Awards. His 2011 novel The Blue Light Project was a Canadian bestseller and won the CBC Bookie Prize in fiction. His most recent novel is The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf (2024). This novel returns readers to the world of restaurants and commercial kitchens, exploring the theme of food as a language that we can use to express ourselves on the topic of place, belonging, and the complex inheritance of our own personal histories.

Taylor has also been a prolific journalist and creative nonfiction writer over the same period. He has published hundreds of feature articles in the past 20 years in such publications as The New York Times, The Walrus, Hakai, EnRoute, 18 Bridges, The Report on Business Magazine, and many others. He has won or been nominated for over two dozen magazine awards, been widely anthologized, and seen his work appear in both the US and France. His nonfiction books Foodville and The Cranky Connoisseur were both food memoirs and meditations on foodie obsessions in Western consumer culture. His most recent nonfiction project is The Hidden Holocaust Papers: Survival, Exile, Return (2025), a six-part documentary podcast based on his Jewish family history, produced in collaboration with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and Walrus Magazine.

Taylor came to the University of British Columbia in 2013 after many years in industry. He now  teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at the UBC School of Creative Writing. He has developed a specialization in cross-disciplinary, narrative-driven initiatives that bridge science, art, and literature. He has worked with faculty from History and Medicine, with staff from the SEEDS Sustainability Program and Campus and Community Planning. He’s also developed courses and other collaborations with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the UBC Quantum Matter Institute.

In addition to his writing and teaching at UBC, Taylor travels widely, having in recent years spent time on assignment in Germany, China, Tibet, Japan, Dubai, Brazil, the Canadian Arctic, and other places. He lives in Point Grey, Vancouver, with his wife, his son, and two Brittany Spaniels named Keaton and Murphy.