Michael Harris is the author of All We Want, Solitude, and The End of Absence. His books are national bestsellers and are available in a dozen languages. He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award and his books have been nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize, and the CBC Bookie Award.

Harris wrote the tech podcast Command Line Heroes, which has been downloaded millions of times and was honoured at both the Webby Awards and the Shorty Awards. For several years he was a faculty member in the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre. His essays on media, the arts, and civil liberties, appear in Esquire, The Washington Post, Wired, Salon, The Globe & Mail, and dozens of other publications.

Harris lives with his husband, Kenny Park, in Vancouver, Canada.