Harrison Mooney


Harrison Mooney is a Canadian journalist and writer, who won the Kobo Emerging [Writer Prize] for non-fiction in 2023 for his memoir Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery.
A journalist for the Vancouver Sun, Mooney wrote the book about his experiences growing up as a Black Canadian in an adoptive white Christian family, and subsequently meeting and reconnecting with his birth mother in his early 20s.
The book was also shortlisted for the Governor General's [Award for English-language non-fiction] at the 2023 [Governor General's Awards].