Teva Harrison
Teva Harrison (August 20, 1976, Williams, Oregon, U.S. – April 28, 2019, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)[1] was a Canadian-American writer and graphic artist. She was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at age 37, and began to document her experiences with the terminal illness using illustrations and essays.[2] Her works were compiled into a graphic memoir called In-Between Days.[3] The book was a finalist for the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction,[4] and put Harrison on the list of 16 Torontonians to Watch.[5] Harrison won the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize,[1] and was a finalist for the 2017 Joe Shuster Award for Cartoonist/Auteur.[6]
She also published The Joyful Living Colouring Book[7] in 2016, and a posthumous collection of poetry of drawings, Not One of These Poems is About You was published in January 2020.[8]
She wrote for The Walrus,[9] Granta,[10] and HuffPost,[11] and was featured in the Globe and Mail,[12] Creative Mornings,[13] HuffPost Canada,[14][15] Kirkus Reviews,[16] The New York Times,[17][18] and WNYC.[19] She also spoke on CBC Radio about her experience.[20][21] She became a respected voice on issues around metastatic breast cancer,[22] opioids,[23] and the power of nature.[24][25]
Harrison's art was featured in a solo exhibition[26] at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2017, and she was the lead illustrator of Draw Me Close, a virtual-reality theatre production, created by Jordan Tannahill and co-produced by the National Theatre and the National Film Board. Sections of Draw Me Close were featured at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and the 74th Venice Film Festival.[27] Draw Me Close was to have its North American premiere with Toronto's Soulpepper in 2020.
Death
[edit]Harrison died in Toronto from metastatic breast cancer, aged 42, some six years after her diagnosis. Survivors included her husband, David Leonard.[28][29][30]
References
[edit]- ^ a b van Koeverden, Jane (2019-04-28). "Teva Harrison, award-winning Toronto cartoonist, dead at 42". CBC Books. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ^ "Teva Harrison – Wordfest". wordfest.com. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Cancer patient Teva Harrison draws on her inner strength | Toronto Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Past GGBooks winners and finalists". Governor General's Literary Awards. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Sixteen Torontonians to watch in 2016". Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "The 2017 Joe Shuster Awards Receives This Year's Nominees". CGMagazine. 2017-07-10. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "The Joyful Living Colouring Book". House of Anansi Press. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ van Koeverden, Jane (2019-07-19). "Teva Harrison's illustrated poetry collection to be posthumously published in Jan. 2020". CBC. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
- ^ "Teva Harrison | The Walrus". thewalrus.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Teva Harrison". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "Teva Harrison". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "Writing graphic memoir was this woman's answer to terminal cancer". Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Teva Harrison | CreativeMornings/TO". CreativeMornings. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Living With Cancer | HuffPost Canada". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Memoir | HuffPost Canada". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ IN-BETWEEN DAYS by Teva Harrison | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Ulinich, Anya (2017-05-16). "Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Gubar, Susan (2017-10-12). "Cancer Humor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Teva Harrison's 'In-Between Days', retrieved 2018-03-22
- ^ "Teva Harrison on turning living with incurable cancer into art | CBC Radio". CBC. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ "Teva Harrison, Michael Coren | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
- ^ Allen, Corrina. "Why everyone needs to start talking about Metastatic Breast Cancer". The Loop. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ Harrison, Teva (2018-08-23). "The Other Side of Fentanyl". The Walrus. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "Above the Tree Line". Granta Magazine. 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "This Is Why I Collect Four-Leaf Clovers (It's Not for Luck)". Reader's Digest. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibit aims to inspire hope". Global News. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "VR takes to the stage: How Jordan Tannahill's latest project weaves a virtual narrative". Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Toronto writer Teva Harrison remembered for graphic memoir about cancer". Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ ""She made being human into an art": Remembering Teva Harrison, 1976–2019". Quill and Quire. 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ "Teva Harrison, award-winning writer and cartoonist, dies at age 42 | The Star". The Toronto Star. April 29, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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- Canadian women memoirists
- Canadian women poets
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- Canadian women graphic designers
- Canadian female comics artists
- Deaths from breast cancer in Canada
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- 21st-century American memoirists
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century Canadian memoirists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Writers from Oregon
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