Career
lieutenant was also long-listed for both the Royal Bank of Canada Charles Taylor Prize and the British Columbia National Nonfiction Award. The End of Absence is a reported memoir about living through a "Gutenberg Moment." lieutenant is a portrait of the last generation in history to remember life before the Internet. By describing the constant connectivity of contemporary life, Harris explores the idea that lack and absence are actually human virtues being stripped from us.
Harris is a former staff editor for Vancouver Magazine and Western Living, and his writing has also appeared in Wired, Salon, Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Xtra Vancouver, Maisonneuve, the National Post and The Walrus.
He has been nominated for both the Western Magazine Awards and the National Magazine Awards for his writing. In 2012, he also published the young adult novel Homo, about a gay teenager struggling with coming out in high school.
