Mary-Jean Harris writes fantasy and historical fiction, both novels and short stories. She has a passion for writing fantasy and likes to incorporate philosophy, particularly ancient philosophy, in her writing. Her stories have been published in anthologies and websites such as the Tesseracts anthologies, Polar Expressions, Allegory Ezine, and SciPhi Journal. Mary-Jean is also a student at the University of Victoria in Canada studying theoretical physics, and she has a Masters degree from the Perimeter Institute.
Although computers are necessary in both writing and physics, she often wishes that computers and other such electronics didn’t exist. She always writes her stories by hand first, filling up many notebooks or making large stacks of paper. She has a poodle and rabbit and hopes to have a Bernese Mountain Dog someday. Meanwhile, her life-size stuffed animal of a Bernese will have to do. She lives in Ottawa, Canada and has travelled to England, Scotland, France, and Peru, and hopes to travel to many other places with old castles and beautiful places to hike and explore. She loves to run, hike, and be outside all the time, which includes sitting outside in cold weather to read or write. The books Mary-Jean likes to read best are fantasy, classics, historical fiction, and philosophy. If she had to choose, her favourites would probably be Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy and Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo.