Full-hearted, eyes wide to beauty and wonder, and pouring love into everyone around her. She is the author of the bestselling, critically-acclaimed hybrid graphic memoir In-Between Days, published by House of Anansi Press. As she said in her book, she wanted to ‘live like a tornado,’ and she did for every part of her life. Teva Harrison is an artist, writer, and cartoonist. Her husband wrote of her passing on Facebook: “in our house, surrounded by family and old friends, she lay among us sleeping, alternatively waking and smiling as people spoke to her and shared their memories with her.

Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. She was a regular commentator on CBC Radio, and appeared on programs including Canada AM, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Space TV’s InnerSpace, The Morning Show, and more. In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer - Kindle edition by Harrison, Teva. Her comics were exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and her writing and artwork were also featured in publications like Granta, Reader’s Digest and The Globe and Mail. Since her diagnosis, Teva has written and illustrated the critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days, about her experience living with cancer. After its publication in 2016, “In-Between Days” won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction, and was a finalist for that year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. She was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer aged 37. Harrison was born in Oregon on August 20, 1976, and lived in Toronto with her husband David Leonard. Harrison was best known for her short comics about living with cancer, which were published in The Walrus magazine and collected in the book “In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer.” CBC News reports that award-winning cartoonist Teva Harrison died at the age of 42 in Toronto on April 27, 2019.

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