Kate Harris

Kate Harris
Born1982 (age 37–38)[1]
NationalityCanada
Known foraward-winning author
Websitehttp://www.kateharris.ca/

Kate Harris is a Canadian author.[2]

Early Life

Harris was born in Ontario and grew up dreaming of exploring Mars[2]. She viewed the Earth as having been thoroughly explored and charted before her lifetime, so she set her eyes on another planet. This life-long inspiration to explore led her to bike across the Silk Road, which she documented in her first book Lands of Lost Borders.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina in the U.S, she studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lands of Lost Borders

Her first book, Lands of Lost Borders, a nonfiction book describing her experiences bicycling 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) of Asia's historic Silk Road over a 14 month period, won the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the 2019 Edna Staebler Award.[3] and the 2019 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. The RBC Taylor prize comes with a $30,000 cash award. The Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize and Edna Staebler Award each come with a $10,000 cash award.

She undertook the trip documented in her book with a friend.

Current works

Harris currently lives off-grid in northern British Columbia, near the Yukon border.[3][1]

In an interview with Anna Maria Tremonti, of The Current, Harris described falling in love with the land around Atlin, British Columbia when she skied across the nearby Juneau Icefield as part of an undergraduate field course in glaciology.[4] She currently shares a small cabin there with her partner.

Harris is working on a second book.

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gollark: ```Instead of the programs I had hoped for, there came only a shuddering blackness and ineffable loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth which no one had ever dared to breathe before — the unwhisperable secret of secrets — The fact that this language of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Rust as London is of Old London and Paris of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite unsafe, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in compilation.```
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References
  1. Adina Bresge (2019-03-04). "Adventurer Kate Harris 'on another world' after winning RBC Taylor Prize". National Post. Toronto. Retrieved 2019-07-10. At first, the trek just seemed like a way to pass the time before Harris launched into orbit. But as the Rhodes scholar returned to her studies at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it dawned on her that there was plenty to discover on her home planet, so she decided to ditch the classroom for the wide-open road.
  2. "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  3. Erin Balser (2019-03-04). "Kate Harris wins $30K RBC Taylor Prize for travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders". CBC News. Retrieved 2019-07-10. In Lands of Lost Borders, Harris recounts her 10,000 kilometre cycling trip along the Silk Road, crossing into 10 countries — including Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Tibet — with her friend Mel Yule. Along the 10-month journey, Harris explores the political, cultural and environmental history of the places and people she encounters.
  4. Anna Marie Tremonti (2018-12-13). "Kate Harris". The Current. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
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