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