Harrison Blackman
Harrison Blackman writes gripping and suspenseful narratives often set in the Eastern Mediterranean. With experience from the newsroom to the writers’ room, Harrison’s interdisciplinary storytelling approach makes complex topics engaging and dramatic. He graduated magna cum laude in history at Princeton University before pursuing an MFA at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Fulbright research grant in the divided nation of Cyprus.
His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Literary Hub, Allrecipes, The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, The California Post, and The Brooklyn Rail. A frequent contributor to Princeton Alumni Weekly, he also writes about the intersections of literature and architecture for his Substack, The Usonian.
His book, Greece at the Turning Point: Remembrances of U.S. Foreign Service Families Living and Working in Postwar Greece is forthcoming from Routledge; his novella, Someone Will Remember Us, will be published by Running Wild Press in 2027. His essays have also been featured in The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis (Lars Müller, 2024) and Region (Routlege, 2023).
As a writing consultant, he specializes in memoirs of the Mediterranean, immigration narratives, and novels. Past clients have included Sillyboy: A Novel by Peter Vack (Cash 4 Gold Books, 2024), reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books; My Fight for Survival: From the Lebanese Civil War to Wall Street and My Quest to Beat Cancer and Covid by Fady A. Rizk, with an introduction by Anthony Scaramucci (SALT Books, 2024), #1 bestselling Middle East memoir on Amazon; and A Journey of a Lifetime: My Pursuit of Higher Education by Youcef Rustum (Baton Entertainment, 2025).
Learn more at harrisonblackman.com.