Kate Harris
Kate Harris is an award-winning Canadian author.[2] Her first book, Lands of Lost Borders, a nonfiction book describing her experiences bicycling 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) of Asia's historic silk road, won the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize and the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writers Award.[3] The RBC Taylor prize comes with a $30,000 cash award. The Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize comes with a $10,000 cash award.
Harris was born in Ontario, and lives off-grid in northern British Columbia, near the Yukon border.[3][1] She studied at the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a Rhodes Scholar.
In an interview with Anna Maria Tremonti, of The Current, Harris described falling in love with the land around Allen, British Columbia, when, a field assignment, when she was an undergrad, included a weeks long trip around the nearby Juneau Glacier.[4] She said she decided she would live there, one day. She currently shares a small cabin there with her partner.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adina Bresge (2019-03-04). "Adventurer Kate Harris 'on another world' after winning RBC Taylor Prize". National Post (Toronto). https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/books-entertainment-pmn/newsalert-kate-harris-wins-rbc-taylor-prize. Retrieved 2019-07-10. "At first, the trek just seemed like a way to pass the time before Harris launched into orbit. But as the Rhodes scholar returned to her studies at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it dawned on her that there was plenty to discover on her home planet, so she decided to ditch the classroom for the wide-open road."
- ↑ "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. 2019-07-08. https://www.cbc.ca/books/26-canadian-books-that-won-awards-in-the-first-half-of-2019-1.5198575. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Erin Balser (2019-03-04). "Kate Harris wins $30K RBC Taylor Prize for travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/books/kate-harris-wins-30k-rbc-taylor-prize-for-travel-memoir-lands-of-lost-borders-1.5041634. Retrieved 2019-07-10. "In Lands of Lost Borders, Harris recounts her 10,000 kilometre cycling trip along the Silk Road, crossing into 10 countries — including Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Tibet — with her friend Mel Yule. Along the 10-month journey, Harris explores the political, cultural and environmental history of the places and people she encounters."
- ↑ Anna Marie Tremonti (2018-12-13). "Kate Harris". The Current. https://www.cbc.ca/books/kate-harris-1.4944224. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
