Born in Toronto, Canada in 1974. After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at McGill University in 1996, he moved to South Korea, where he lived for 10 years. He continued to live overseas for two more years—in Spain, Australia, and South Africa—before returning to Canada in 2009. Today, he lives and works in Toronto. A Father’s Son (2013) is his first novel. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, Roadmap to Korean (2003) and Faces of Korea (2004), a novella, and a collection of short stories. He has received literary grants for his fiction from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. In 2013, he served on the jury of the Toronto Arts Council’s Level II Grant Committee. Harris recently finished work on a screenplay adaptation of his first novel, A Father’s Son.