This Curious Strangeness That is Consoling: Psychoanalysis and Poetic Process

Author of three books of poetry: Night Garden (2013), The Bad Secret (2006), Atonement (2000) and the critical book, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing (SUNY, 2003). Harris's poems have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, The New York Times Blog, Ploughshares, and the syndicated newspaper column “American Life in Poetry.” Her criticism has been featured in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Division Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum. She has been a speaker at The American Psychoanalytic Association, The Library of Congress, and Washington School of Psychiatry.