Timothy Tau

Timothy Tau
BornAugust 24
Alma materUC Berkeley (B.S., EECS)
UCLA (M.S.Engr., electrical engineering)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (JD)
University of California Berkeley School of Law (LL.M.)
Occupations
  • Writer
  • filmmaker
  • attorney
  • law professor
AwardsGrand Prize, Hyphen Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest, The Understudy

Timothy Tau (born Timothy Tau Hsieh (/ʃ/ SHAY); Chinese: 謝韜; pinyin: Xiè Tāo) is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Hyphen magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (see the October 2010 issue of Playboy magazine). He has also directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube.