Harrison Mooney

Harrison Mooney is a memoirist, journalist, public speaker, educator, and activist. The son of a Ghanaian immigrant mother, he was adopted at birth by a white, fundamentalist Christian family and raised in the Bible belt. 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 and was shortlisted for two BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Governor-General’s Literary Award for English Nonfiction. Harrison's work has also appeared in The National Post, The Guardian, The Tyee, and Maclean's. He lives in East Vancouver with his family.