Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and professor of creative writing.

Background Born in Venezuela, He had two other stories on the competition's preliminary list of finalists that year, and is to date the only writer ever to have three short stories compete for the prize in the same year. It was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, as well as both the Vancouver and BC Book Awards. It was later chosen to be the 2004 title for One Book, One Vancouver. In 2007, Stanley Park was selected for the annual Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by musician Jim Cuddy.

Stanley Park was followed a year later by Silent Cruise, a collection of eight stories and one novella which was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His second novel Story House was published in 2006 and made Canadian bestseller lists.

Taylor also writes nonfiction, particularly on food and wine topics. He's been a contributing editor at Vancouver Magazine and a regular contributor at EnRoute, The Walrus, and Eighteen Bridges. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Western Living, The Vancouver Review, Toro, Saturday Night, Adbusters, the National Post and the Vancouver Sun. He has published the non-fiction books The Cranky Connoisseur (2011) and Foodville (2014).

In 2013, Taylor took a position with the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program, where he now serves as an associate professor.

Taylor's fourth novel, The Rule of Stephens, was published in 2018.

Publications

Novels

Stanley Park. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2001. Story House. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2006. The Blue Light Project. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2011. The Rule of Stephens. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2018. The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf. Dundurn Press, 2024

Short stories Silent Cruise Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002.

Nonfiction The Internet Handbook for Canadian Lawyers (with M. Drew Jackson): Carswell, 1997. The Cranky Connoisseur: New Word City. 2011. Foodville: Nonvella. 2014