Faculty

Rob Taylor is the author of five books and six chapbooks, and the editor of two anthologies. Rob's poems, short stories, essays and literary interviews have appeared in more than eighty journals, magazines and anthologies, including The Walrus, Brick, The Fiddlehead, and the Literary Review of Canada.

BA, History, Simon Fraser University
MFA, Creative Writing, University of British Columbia

Writers Union of Canada
League of Canadian Poets

I believe, both from teaching and from my own experience, that success in writing comes not from innate talent but from hard work (on both your own writing, and on that of your peers). I love working with students who are passionate about their craft and ready to sweat a little to push their writing to the next level. 

I believe everyone has something valuable to say, we're just looking for the write words with which to say it. Great and lasting writing is built from the syllable up; a music that makes your writing uniquely yours. I love to help new writers find that music in their own work

Contemporary Canadian poetry, contemporary short fiction, the literary interview, literary reviewing, the lyric essay, poetic form, short verse, haiku and Japanese forms, chapbooks, grass-roots literary organizing.

Strangers, Biblioasis, 2021
Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Biblioasis, 2019
What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, Nightwood Editions, 2018
Oh Not So Great: Poems from the Depression Project, Leaf Press, 2017
The News, Gaspereau Press, 2016
The Other Side of Ourselves, Cormorant Books, 2011

Artistic Director, Fraser Valley Writers Festival (2023 - Present)
Coordinator, Dead Poets Reading Series (2011-2018)
Poetry Editor, PRISM international (2014-2015)
Poetry Editor, Red Fez Magazine (2007-2010)
Co-founder and Editor, One Ghana, One Voice (2007-2017)
Co-founder and Editor, High Altitude Poetry (2004-2010)