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. On 28 November 2024, Mira’s debut novel ONE IN THREE was published by the Book Guild Ltd, U.K.
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 in the Otago University Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health.
She continues to write fiction and has completed a speculative YA novel 8 Floors . A third novel is in progress.
Mira Harrison is represented by Tom Cull of Cull and Co Literary Agency in London.
Follow Mira on X @Miraharrison4
23 DECEMBER 2024: Otago Daily Times article by Matthew Littlewood:
https://archive.md/2024.12.23-052305/https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/medical-experience-informs-novel
19 DECEMBER 2024: Allied Press/The Star article by Brenda Harwood:
https://archive.md/2024.12.23-052321/https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/doctor-puts-life-wards-words
18 DECEMBER 2024: Interview on Write Spot OAR by Jeff Harford:
https://tinyurl.com/MiraHarrison
08 DECEMBER 2024: NZ Herald/NZ Listener Book of the Day by Greg Fleming:
https://archive.md/7BT1v
14 NOVEMBER 2024: Southern Daily Echo by Lorelei Reddin:
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24720693.debut-novel-based-life-junior-doctor-southampton/
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/
My debut novel, ONE IN THREE was published by the UK Book Guild on 28 November 2024!
ONE IN THREE was launched at Hornsey Library in North London on Saturday 23 November 2024.
ONE IN THREE was launched in Aotearoa NZ at Dunedin Public Hospital on 20 December 2024.