Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe is a Canadian author of non-fiction essays, articles and books. He has prowled nocturnally in the footsteps of Dalí and Buñuel in Toledo, Spain for National Geographic Traveler, eaten bugs at the Insectarium for The Independent, and substituted for William Safire in the New York Times Magazine. His travel essays have been published in several anthologies and his work has appeared in a variety of major publications including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Gourmet, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Times (UK) and The Independent.

Grescoe is also the author of five books, including the bestselling Bottomfeeder, which won the 2008 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction. Two other titles, Sacré Blues and The End of Elsewhere, were shortlisted for Writers’ Trust awards. Grescoe’s most recent book is Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and ourselves from the Automobile. He lives in Montreal.