escaping the everday

Born in Jamaica and raised in Atlanta, Ann Michelle Harris writes romantic suspense and fantasy/speculative fiction with diverse characters and positive social justice themes. She is a lawyer by day and a writer by night with a B.A. in English from Penn and a J.D. from Emory. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Atlanta Writers Club, and Georgia Romance Writers. She is a Maggie finalist, a double finalist in the national Pages From the Heart contest, and a finalist for the 2023 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for emerging crime writers of color from Sisters in Crime. 

Her stories are featured in the grifter crime anthology Hook, Line, and Sinker and the vacation crime anthology Gone Fishin: Crime Takes a Holiday. Her escapist fantasy novel North debuted in January, 2025, from Running Wild Press, and has been described as “distinctive and compelling” by Kirkus Reviews. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Atlanta Writers Club, and is on the executive board of Georgia Romance Writers. She teaches writing workshops and has been featured in various online publications including Writer Unboxed, Canvas Rebel, Black Fiction Addiction, and others. In addition to fiction, she writes sci-fi/fantasy reviews for the Hugo Award winning Nerds of a Feather and recently attended Glasgow WorldCon where Nerds of a Feather won their second Hugo Award for best online fan magazine. She is married, has three adult children, and loves anime, shopping, donuts, and vacations at the beach. 

A cynical boy who can heal from any injury is destined for a lot of suffering, but when he meets a fierce princess with a murdered father, his dangerous adventures are just beginning.

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