Anita  M. Harris is an author, photographer and communications consultant  based in  Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’s won numerous awards as a journalist and consultant; has taught at Harvard, Yale, Simmons and Tufts Universities; and she blogs at New Cambridge Observer . She can frequently be seen running around Fresh Pond or on the Charles River. Anita especially enjoys art, music, nature and….shopping! She is not to be confused with the British Rock star by the same name…nor with the Australian feminist author. Link to Bio.

Books and Photobooks

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Anita’s nonfiction books include The View from Third Street (2022), a young journalist’s search for love and truth at a time of tumultuous change; Ithaca Diaries,  2015) a memoir/social history of Cornell University, 1966-1970; and Broken Patterns: Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity (1995, 2014). The forthcoming Philadelphia Stories, an immediate sequel to Ithaca Diaries, is about Anita’s adventures her first year out of college. Book overviews. Buy a book!

Anita is currently working  on Midcentury Modern Woman: the Life and Art of Sara Richman Harris, and Stuff, which is about Anita’s experiences selling her childhood home in Albany, NY.

A personal essay, “Seduced by a Charming AI Chatbot,” was published  in the Modern Love column of the The New York Times. 

Anita’s photobook, Pandemic Journey, Beauty Amidst the Ruins, was exhibited in juried  juried shows at the Davis Orton Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Anita has also published a photobook entitled The Art of Sara Richman Harris.

PHOTOGRAPHY
As a photographer, Anita Harris is happiest at the intersection of nature and art—where she seeks to capture the lines, colors, shapes and shades of geologic and biologic formations as they create ever-changing abstractions of their own. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at several Boston area libraries, at Harvard University, at the “Treasures Over Time” shop in Salem, Mass., at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY. and at the Griffin Museum in Winchester, Mass. Link to Exhibits

CONSULTING: Anita M. Harris is the founder and managing director of the Harris Communications Group of Cambridge, MA. She has won numerous awards for her work as a communications consultant in health, science and technology. More information