Harrison writes: “My marae is Waiti. I grew up in Tokoroa and I lived and worked in South Auckland (Mangere) for twenty years. I have five children and, at present, four grandchildren. I am a registered nurse and I work for a Māori mental health services group. My main interests are reading and writing.’
KT Harrison's work Porirua won the Best Novel Extract Written in English category at the 2009 Pikihuia Awards. In 2011 her work Waiwhetū Wishes was a finalist in the Best Novel Extract category and A Picnic with the Bears was published in Huia Short Stories 11 in 2015.
Biographical sources
- Huia Short Stories 4: Contemporary Māori Fiction. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2001: 263.
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Fiction
- "Media Studies." Huia Short Stories 4: Contemporary Māori Fiction. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2001: 111-114.
- "Porirua." Huia Short Stories 8. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2009.
- "Waiwhetū Wishes." Huia Short Stories 9. Huia Publishers, 2011.
- "Baking Day." takahē 74 (Summer 2011): 5-8.
- "The things I carry : by J-O-R-D-A-N." Mayhem literary journal, n.1, Mar 2014.
- "A Picnic with the Bears." Huia Short Stories 11. Huia Publishers, 2015.
- "Once upon a pretty girl." Mayhem literary journal n.3 (Oct 2015): 4.
Poetry
- "Three poems." Mayhem literary journal n.1, Mar 2014.
- "Where do you go to my lovely (from 'Corina goes to Wellington')." Mayhem literary journal n.2, Dec 2014.
- "Theoretical fringe benefits." Mayhem literary journal, n.3 (Oct 2015): 5.