HARRISON MOONEY is a best-selling memoirist, award-winning journalist, public speaker, educator and activist from Canada’s west coast. The son of a Ghanaian immigrant mother, he was adopted at birth by a white, fundamentalist Christian family and raised in the Bible belt of British Columbia.

Harrison’s debut memoir, Invisible Boy, which traces his childhood journey “from white cult to Black consciousness,” was the winner of the 2023 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for nonfiction, and has been shortlisted for two BC & Yukon Book Prizes, as well as the prestigious Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

Before pivoting to publishing, Harrison worked for The Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter, editor and columnist, winning the 2018 Jack Webster Award in breaking news reporting for his newsroom's coverage of the 2017 BC wildfires.

Harrison narrates season 2 of TVO Arts, an award-winning video series that decodes and demystifies iconic works of Canadian art, and is the regular host of Unbound, a growing collective that celebrates and nurtures Black creative voices. Founded in 2020 by fellow transracial adoptee Hope Lauterbach, the Unbound Reading Series produces literary events that feature emerging and established Black authors and poets.

Harrison's work has also appeared in The New York Times, The National Post, The Guardian, The Tyee, and Maclean's. He is the co-founder of long-running hockey blog, Pass it to Bulis, still going strong in its fifteenth year.

Harrison lives in East Vancouver with his family and family dog, Bootsy.