Jason Taniguchi is a writer and actor from

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, Ontario, Canada. His poems and short fiction appear in the collection ''Jason Taniguchi's Very Sensible Stories and Poems for Grown-ups'' from Kelp Queen Press. He has also both written for and appeared in the History Television series ''

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''. Taniguchi is known for his one-man science fiction parody shows at Ad Astra, for which he received the 2003

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in the category Fan (Other). Jason is a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools and

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in the

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. In 1989 he founded the Serial Diners of Toronto, a dining club that visited the restaurants in Toronto's Yellow Pages telephone directory in alphabetical order. The group suspended its activities in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bibliography

* Very Sensible Stories and Poems for Grown-ups, Kelp Queen Press, 2004

External links

The Serial Diners

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Trinity College (Canada) alumni University of Toronto alumni 21st-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Canadian male short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-actor-stub