MEET harrison
Harrison Blackman writes gripping and suspenseful narratives that involve the history of modern architecture and the Eastern Mediterranean.
With experience from the newsroom to the writers’ room, Harrison’s interdisciplinary storytelling approach often follows wayward journalists on quests to uncover previously hidden connections to cryptic conspiracies—revelations that usually tie into the investigator’s own noir-stained past.
Known as a “shamus of the tiger sort” at Princeton University, Harrison cut his teeth as a cub reporter in Taos, New Mexico before elevating his craft with an MFA at the University of Nevada, Reno and a Fulbright in the divided nation of Cyprus. Since then, he wrote an episode of a TV show currently in development.
His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Literary Hub, Allrecipes, and The Brooklyn Rail. He writes about the intersections of literature and architecture for his Substack, The Usonian.
A member of the WGA and the NWU, Harrison’s fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize; his screenplays have been highly ranked in the Austin Film Festival.
Harrison lives in Los Angeles, where he dreams about cross-country skiing.
