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.[1] 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.
Sacré Blues also won the Edna Staebler Award and two awards from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
He has contributed to Canadian Geographic,[2] The New York Times, Salon, The Independent, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Times of London, and Condé Nast Traveller.
Grescoe lives in Montreal, Quebec.[1]