Toronto journalist J. Timothy Hunt is a regular contributor to many of Canada’s most prominent magazines. His profile of the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell entitled "An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness" in the Ryerson Review of Journalism won three North American journalism prizes and was nominated for a 2000 National Magazine Award. As staff writer for National Post Business Magazine, in 2001, he received another NMA nomination for his story about Internet privacy entitled “Moving Target.” The same year, his coverage of the symbolic funeral of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in Saturday Night was also recognized by the National Magazine Awards and bought by Canadian publisher McFarlane Walter Ross to be turned into the book The Politics of Bones (subsequently published by McClelland and Stewart in 2005).
A recent immigrant to Canada, Mr. Hunt was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended university in Montana, receiving a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration in 1981. During his 16 years as a New York City resident, he became known as a playwright and author of science fiction short stories. His plays "Angel Fire" and “The Lunatic" were presented Off-Off Broadway. His short fiction can be found in the anthologies Lovers and Other Monsters and Don't Open This Book, both published by Doubleday. He has been writer in residence three times at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and was the founder of The Writers’ Workout creative writing studio in New York. He received a B.A.A. in Journalism from Toronto’s Ryerson University in 1999.
Mr. Hunt is married and lives in Toronto, Ontario. He became a Canadian citizen in 2004.