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Maureen Scott Harris was born in Prince Rupert, and grew up in Winnipeg, and has lived in Toronto since 1964. She has a BA and a Library Degree from the University of Toronto, and worked until 1993 as a rare books catalogue and in other capacities at the University of Toronto Library. Since then she has worked as an author, editor, reviewer, freelancer; and has worked in a bookstore, and as a manager at Brick Books.

In 2005 she won the Trillium Book Award for poetry for Drowning Lessons. Most recently in April 2009, Maureen Scott Harris was the first non-Australian to be awarded the 2009 WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize which includes $5,000, roundtrip airfare to Tasmania and a two-week long residency in a Tasmanian National Park. She won for her essay, "Broken Mouth: Offerings for the Don River, Toronto."

Maureen Scott Harris is married to Peter Harris, Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,University of Toronto. Two daughters, Jessica and Katharine.

Maureen Scott Harris's works copyright © to the author.