Timothy Kaiser was born in Iowa, USA, and grew up in the rugged mountains of northwest British Columbia and on the plains of wheatbelt Saskatchewan, Canada. His work has been published in Canada (The Antigonish Review, Wascana Review), the U.S. (Atlanta Review), the U.K. (Dream Catcher), and in Hong Kong (City Voices, outloud, Yuan Yang).  Recently, his story about a teacher on a Dene First Nations reserve in northern Saskatchewan, “Mother Margaret and the Rhinoceros Café”, won first prize in the 2003 Canadian Cross-Cultural Short Story Competition.  His poetry collection entitled Food Court was released by Chameleon Press in 2003.

Kaiser now calls Hong Kong home where he has lived mostly in the rural New Territories - a part of the city that tourists, even long-term residents of Hong Kong, seldom see.  A place of 300-year-old walled villages, water buffaloes working the fields, pig and chicken farms, barking deer roaming through acres of pristine wilderness.    The indigenous  villagers of “rural” Hong Kong as well as the glass and metal of the main districts appear in Kaiser’s poetry as do the coulees and blizzards of his prairie Canadian youth.  Tim is married with two young children; he is the  Head of the English Department at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong.