The Writers of Wales Database

SOLOW, HARRISON

Representation: Russell Galen (Scovil, Galen, Ghosh) in New York
Dr. Harrison Solow can be reached via her manager, Simon Rivkin at simonrivkin@solowtwo.com
Websites: http://redroom.com/author/harrison-solow
http://lamp.academia.edu/HarrisonSolow
http://felicityandbarbarapym.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @HarrisonSolow

Dr. Harrison Solow is a writer, university lecturer, creative and strategic consultant to a wide variety of institutions. She has to date written/edited/executed over 400 publications and projects. Her latest book, Felicity and Barbara Pym, published by Cinnamon Press, was launched in June 2010 in the UK and is currently being represented in America by The Crawford Literary Agency for a North American edition.

Her many awards for literary fiction, nonfiction, cross-genre writing, poetry, and professional writing, include the prestigious Pushcart Prize, one of the most valued literary prizes in America. Her most recent award is First Prize, Short Fiction in the Carpe Articulum Literary Review International Competition for 2010.

Dr. Solow lectures at a number of universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and the UK. A former faculty member at UC Berkeley, she accepted a lectureship in the English Department of the University of Wales in 2004 at the associate professor level (undergraduate teaching and advising, graduate teaching and advising, thesis supervision, committee membership, guest lecturing in other departments, preparation and execution of internal and external colloquia, seminars, conferences and workshops for students and peers, giving papers at conferences at other universities, research and publication). She was appointed Writer in Residence in 2008. During her residence at the university, she was also the Director of The St. David's Institute, an international intercultural academic institute. In 2010, she was contracted as Creative Consultant to The Coeurage Theatre Company in North Hollywood as Creative Consultant on their production of Under Milk Wood in Los Angeles.

She received her PhD in English (Letters) from the University of Wales in 2011 with the distinction: "Accepted as Submitted: No Changes".

Dr. Solow's research interests include philosophical and pedagogical literary fiction and nonfiction, cross genre works and liminality, the critical focus of her PhD dissertation, The Bendithion Chronicles which she is now revising as a book. Although now based primarily in California, she continues to write about Wales, for Wales. Her "Letters From Wales" in The Carpe Articulum, Literary Review (Winter, 2011) received high critical acclaim from such notables as Lord Charles Spencer who is featured in the same issue.

Dr. Solow's guest lecture invitations include Harvard in 2008, Cambridge (in honour of the 800th Anniversary of the university) in 2009, Oxford in 2010, and the University of Vienna in 2011 (for Spring Term, 2012).

In addition to her own creative and critical work, Harrison. Solow writes for the professions, the arts and academia. She is a member of The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The National Association of Scholars, The (by invitation only) Women's Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley, The Association of Welsh Writers in English, The Claremont Institute, Association for Core Texts and Courses, The Red Room, The Association of Writing Programs, and The National Coalition of Independent Scholars, where she served on the Board in 2009 and 2010. She speaks various varieties of English as well as intermediate Welsh and rusty French.

Reviews:
With respect to Felicity and Barbara Pym (Cinnamon, 2010)

"…A splendid book! Original, controversial, academic, readable, serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming… the treasures of a cultured mind…everyone who has ever found enjoyment in reading, will be grateful for this delightful work. I loved it…"
Hazel Holt, Literary Executor of the Barbara Pym Estate

"...It should be mandatory reading for all undergraduate students of English Literature; no American students of English Literature should be allowed to set foot upon campus without having proved that they have read it..."
Peter Miles, Emeritus Fellow of the English Association

"... a dramatic monologue which reveals how a life spent reading and thinking about literature has directed consciousness and informed the content of the thinking mind...A fascinating, intriguing presentation, which demands a sequel..."
Dr. Christopher Terry, Scholar at Downing College Cambridge

Selected Publications:
Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation (Portraits of American Genius) (University of California Press, 1998)
Felicity and Barbara Pym (Cinnamon, 2010)
The Bendithion Chronicles, (PhD Thesis, soon to be a book.)
 

Contributed to:
The Star Trek Sketch Book (book) (co-writer with H.F. Solow) (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
'The Apricots and the King' (short story) (Farbrengen Magazine, 2003)
'Ersatz Fideles' (poetry) in The Ukraine and Other Poems (Leaf Books, 2007)
'Bendithion' (essay) in AGNI Literary Journal (Boston University, 2007)
'The Postmasters Song' (short story) in The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
'The Civics of Civility: Aesthetics and Habitude' in Providence by Anita Brookner (Gently Read Literature, 2009)
'Mater Amabilis' (short story) (Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Spring, 2010)
"Liminality, Luminescence and Literature", (Profile) Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Autumn 2010)
'Letters from Wales" (nonfiction) Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Winter, 2011
"Dr. Wilton Dillon, Senior Scholar Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution" (nonfiction) Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Summer 2011)

Felicity and Barbara Pym (Cinnamon, 2010) 

"...It's about literature. It's about reading. It's about writing. It's about becoming educated, about not assuming things aren't happening just because you don't see them happening, about not ever believing that language is a true vehicle for communication - and it's about knowing that sometimes, in order to get a true education, you have to turn to your butcher..."
Harrison Solow

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