In Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead, Harris works with fairy tales, children's literature and mythology to ask important questions of gender, of queerness, of misogyny and of the role of art in social change.
Erina Harris is a Canadian writer, educator and mentor. Her first book, The Stag Head Spoke (Buckrider Books, 2014), was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. A graduate and Fellow of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her work has been published widely, translated and awarded multiple prizes including international residencies. She lives and teaches in Edmonton, Alberta.
