Taslim Jaffer is a writer, editor and writing instructor with a special interest in culture, identity and home.

She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is working on her memoir-in-essays about life as a first-generation Canadian and parent. She serves on the Board of Directors for Word Vancouver and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society, and is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.

Taslim is co-editor of the anthology Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, And Home (Book*hug Press, 2024), a collection of 26 literary travel essays by diasporic writers who travelled back to their motherlands.