Mira Harrison is a doctor and writer who trained in the British NHS. She followed a career in women’s health, drug safety research and medical ethics before writing her first short story collection, Admissions: tales of life, death and love in a hospital not far from here. Admissions was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in 2018 and New Admissions: tales of life, death and love in the time of lockdown, was published in October 2020.

Writing as Dr Mira Harrison-Woolrych, she co-wrote and edited Medicines for Women and the second edition of An Introduction to Pharmacovigilance.  From 2019 to 2022 Mira was President of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) - the first woman to hold this position. She is a strong advocate for compassionate and feminist leadership.

Mira is based in Dunedin, a UNESCO City of Literature in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.  She works at Dunedin Public Hospital as a Research Adviser in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Otago University.

She continues to write fiction and has now completed two novels - ONE IN THREE and a speculative YA novel 8 Floors - with a third novel in progress.

Mira Harrison is represented by Tom Cull of Cull and Co Literary Agency in London.

Follow Mira on X @Miraharrison4

   

30 OCTOBER 2024: University of Otago article by Andrea Jones: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/doctors-tale-has-striking-parallels

31 OCTOBER 2024: CRUX article by Andrew Ashton: https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/dunedin-doctor-realises-book-dream/

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  • My debut novel, ONE IN THREE will be published by the UK Book Guild in November 2024!

  • ONE IN THREE will be launched at Hornsey Library in North London on Saturday 23 November 2024.

  • ONE IN THREE will be launched in Aotearoa NZ at Dunedin Public Hospital on 20 December 2024.