Taslim Jaffer is a writer, editor and writing instructor with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College. Her bylines appear in Maclean’s, CBC, WestCoast Families, Peace Arch News and more. She is the winner of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Collective/Humber Literary Review contest and recipient of a 2021 Silver Canadian Online Publishing Award. She is co-editor of the anthology, Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home (Bookhug*Press, 2024), which won a Gold Foreword INDIE award. Taslim has been teaching memoir and expressive writing in community and rehabilitative settings for over a decade and was the 2025 City of Richmond Writer-in-Residence. Her work-in-progress is an essay collection that explores themes of identity, cultural inheritance, liminal spaces, and parenting.
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