Elizabeth Logan Harris is a writer and editor based in New York City. Her experience also includes film production, teaching, and performance.

Winner of the 2018 Mississippi Review Nonfiction Award, Harris has published works in numerous magazines and periodicals, including Colorado Review (“Black & White TV,” Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2008), Conjunctions, failbetter, Fourth Genre, Guernica, Longreads, New England Review and Sequestrum.

With artist Leslie Kerby, Harris is currently co-editing the anthology, FERRIED AWAY: Reflections on Governors Island. Harris’s interest in the New York waterfront began with her collaboration with filmmaker Jennifer Callahan on the independent documentary “The Bungalows of Rockaway” (WNET/Viewer Favorite, 2010).

Harris’s profile on 19th-century culinary pioneer John Dabney (Richmond Times-Dispatch), marked the return of Dabney’s historic mint julep cup to Richmond (The Virginia Museum of History and Culture). Harris researches and writes about African American history and descendants linked through enslavement in the American South.

Harris has been a fellow at the Arctic Circle Residency Program, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She holds degrees from Brown University (BA), the University of Virginia(MA), and an MFA (Fiction) from Brooklyn College (CUNY). She serves on the board of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts-Association VCCA in Auvillar, France.