Taras Grescoe

His book, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood has also been published as Dead Seas: How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing the Planet (Pan/Macmillan 2012).

Since the publication of Straphanger, he has published op-eds, given keynotes, and developed a social media following commenting on urbanism, transit, and active transport.

Since 2023, he has written a regular newsletter for the Quebec newsmagazine L'actualité on trains, transit, urbanism, and sustainable transportation.

Since the beginning of 2023, he has been a professor of Creative Writing, specializing in literary journalism, at Concordia University in Montreal.

[3] In 2022, Grescoe won a Marian Hebb Research Grant, which is intended to support "inquiry and exploration relevant to Canadian publishing, writing and visual arts, and toward the realization of a publishable work in progress.”[4] He is a fellow of the Fondation Michalski in Montricher, Switzerland, where he worked during a six-week residency in the summer of 2022.