Amy Lavender Harris teaches in the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada.
She is a contributing editor with Spacing magazine, where she writes a regular column on Toronto literature. Her work has also appeared in Open Book magazine, Reading Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House, 2006), GreenTOpia (with Peter Fruchter, Coach House, 2007), Canada: A Literary Tour (Library & Archives Canada, 2009), Plan Canada and the Ontario Planning Journal.
Amy speaks regularly to popular and scholarly audiences about Toronto literature and the imaginative qualities of cities. Recent and forthcoming appearances include Salon Voltaire (2006), the Goethe Institute (2006), Juice Dialogues/Think Tank at OCAD (2006), the Toronto Festival of Architecture & Design (May 2007), Walk21 (October 2007), Beyond Bureaucracy (November 2007), the Walk21 Toronto Community Conference (March 2008), Jane’s Walk (May 2008), the 4th annual Osgoode Constitutional Roundtable (March 2009), Doors Open Toronto (May 2009) and Bookcamp Toronto (June 2009).
She has also been a union leader and negotiator, an urban planner, a civilian instructor, and a journalist.
Amy lives in the Toronto Junction area with her husband and daughter and a massive collection of Toronto books.