Mira Harrison is a doctor and writer who trained in the British NHS. She followed a career in women’s health, medicines 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 was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in 2018. Another set of stories about women working in healthcare, 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.  In October 2019, Mira was elected as 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.

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

Follow Mira on Twitter @Miraharrison4

   

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  • My first novel, One In Three has been accepted for publication in the UK, with an expected publication date of 28 November 2024!