CoCo Harris
Biography
CoCo Harris is a mother of three daughters and a native of Atlanta, GA. She has lived with her family in the Washington, D.C. metro area, Seattle, WA, the coast of Georgia, and now in the Susquehanna Valley in central PA. She attended Howard University for undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and graduate studies in African Studies. After receiving her BSEE, she became a Patent Examiner for the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office granting patents in laser surgery. She was later waived into the national Patent Bar and began practice representing individuals, firms, and corporations.
On the other side of her life and brain, as a lifetime diarist, she has taught the art and craft of creative journal writing since the late 90s. She hosted the SOULTALK Journal Chat radio segment, and has been a contributing writer and columnist for various magazines and has authored several creative journaling guidebooks.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing in Fiction from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. CoCo Harris is constantly exploring the notion of how we tell the stories of our lives.
Where to find CoCo Harris online
Where to buy in print
Books
Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling
by CoCo Harris
Price: $3.99 USD. 20810 words.
Published by Telling Our Stories Press on January 9, 2011. Nonfiction.
~Bridges the journal-memoir connection
~Suggests techniques along with an array of story-generating prompts
~Provides an excellent resource for extracting
expressive and creative personal narratives
~Mines the depths of which personal writing can play an integral part in unearthing your life stories
~Helps you to follow the story of your inner life
To the place where memory meets insight
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