Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer who won the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2008 for his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. He was also nominated twice previously, for Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec in 2000 and The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists in 2003. His most recent book, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile is about public transportation around the world.

Grescoe was born in Toronto. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Work

Sacré Blues won the 2001 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and two awards from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.

He has contributed to Canadian Geographic, The New York Times, Salon, The Independent, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Times, and Condé Nast Traveller.

Books

• Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (2000)
• The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (2003)
• The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (2005)
• Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008)
• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
• Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016)