Education
Harris is a graduate of Ferndale High School and Oakland University, the latter with a (Bachelor of Science in computer and information science).
Harris is a graduate of Ferndale High School and Oakland University, the latter with a (Bachelor of Science in computer and information science).
According to her blog, she has worked as a cook in a vegetarian restaurant, a freelance journalist, a public relations writer, an operations research analyst for the United States Department of Defense, and "a doggy daycare worker". As of October 2010, she and Steve Ainsworth were still together. Harris also teaches in Seton Hill University"s Writing Popular Fiction Master of Fine Arts program
Harris"s literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.
Currently, she writes under two pseudonyms. As Pearl North she published Libyrinth in 2009.
lieutenant is the first volume in a young adult science fiction trilogy. The second in the series, The Boy From Ilysies, came out in November 2010, and the third, The Book of the Night, was released in 2012.
Under the pen name Jessica Freely, Harris has written numerous male/male erotic romance ebooks since 2008.
She posts free fiction and writes about epublishing, the female gaze, and other related topics on her blog, Friskbiskit. Her other novels include The Nature of Smoke (her first, published in 1996, shortlisted in translation for the 2007 Japanese Sense of Gender Award) and Inventing Memory, published in 2004. Harris "has been a long-term advocate of women"s rights, reproductive freedom, and GLBT rights.".