Winner of the 2018 Mississippi Review nonfiction award, Harris has published other short works in Colorado Review, Conjunctions, failbetter, Glimmer Train, Guernica, Longreads, New England Review, The Rupture, and elsewhere. A recipient of the AWP award for fiction, Harris has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. With filmmaker Jennifer Callahan, Harris co-wrote and co-produced the independent film "The Bungalows of Rockaway," which premiered on public television (WNET) in 2010. Before moving to New York in 2002, Harris worked as a writer, performer, and producer of theater and film in Ohio and Kentucky for nearly a decade. A native of Virginia, she holds degrees from Brown University (BA), the University of Virginia (MA), and Brooklyn College (MFA). Harris serves on the board of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
