About  Heidi Harrison

I have always loved writing. At a very early age, I realized that words allowed for the exodus of my soul, a rhapsody, a sense of grace enveloping me. Writing has been my boulder, my stories the healing balm in a world that sometimes cries out for this.

I was born in and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. I hold a MS degree in Counseling Psychology, and a dual degree in Child Development and French, and I have spent almost thirty years as a psychotherapist and a teacher of young children.  I am also a classically trained violinist. I  have traveled extensively between the hemispheres and I have lived and studied in Paris and in Grenoble, France.

I have written several novels and children's books,  countless stories, (fiction and creative nonfiction) and a full-length memoir.  In each of these works, I am inspired by imagination itself, by real stories of people's lives, by love, by music, by the stunning majesty of nature, by the beauty and power of words, relationships,  the diversity of cultures, and the human heart and its complexities. We live in a complicated and often challenging world, and yet, as a writer, as an observer, as a teacher, I am, every day, inspired by the grace and by the infinite beauty that we, as humans, embody. Our dazzling earth is of an infinite nature; humbly, I let words only begin to describe it.