Harrison Solow's Biography

Dr. Harrison Solow’s writing awards include the Pushcart Prize for Literature (2008). She is published by Simon & Schuster, The University of California Press, Harper Collins, Carpe Articulum, AOL, Cinnamon Press, AGNI, The Pushcart Press and several others in the USA, Wales, Canada and England.

In addition to her own works, she writes for myriad cultural, educational, political and corporate organisations. Her professional clients include Paramount Pictures, NASA, Skybox, Profiles in History, Arts & Letters Daily, Corporate Communications Ltd, The Smithsonian Institution, The Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Weissman & Associates, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, Simon& Schuster, Libertas Publishing, Weller Grossman, Marcus-Plotkin, The Canadian International Development Agency and many more.

 See: http://lamp.academia.edu/HarrisonSolow/About for academic bio.

Highlights:

*Writer of literary nonfiction, fiction and liminal works.
*Ghost Writer/Speech writer for public figures & celebrities.
* Hollywood Writer (various capacities)
*Frequent guest on network & cable television and radio. Entertainment Tonight, BBC, A&E Biography, Booknews, The Sci Fi Channel, etc. Featured in/by Variety, the LA Times, BBC and innumerable radio stations and newspapers.
*Author (under pseudonym) of one of the two best-selling UC Press publications ever: Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation, foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke:
*Writer-in-Residence: University of Wales, Lampeter (Now Trinity St. David), 2008-2009.
*University Professor (in US terms): Creative Writing, Professional Writing, Literature, and Cultural Studies at American and British universities.
Professional writer: Creative, promotional, business copy, treatments, speeches for entertainment, political, and corporate celebrities, companies and charities.
*Pushcart Prize for Literature awarded for non-fiction.
*Public speaker and lecturer for wide variety of organizations.  (including Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford etc).
*Representated by different agents/manager/attorneys, depending on project.

Specialties

Prose: Writing it. Reading it. Sculpting it. Speaking it.

Exceptionally effective original and strategic thinking/writing/speaking for projects in or relating to literature, television, film and the industries that support them. Considerable inside experience.

Unusually divers experience in mainstream entertainment, publishing, literary trade and academics.

Excellent translator of one form of English and cultural sub-text from one world to the other. Expertise in literary fiction, science fiction and narrative nonfiction.