Meaghan Katrak Harris
Dr Meaghan Katrak Harris is a social worker, academic, consultant and writer. She has a long and diverse professional background and works across the private and public sectors and the arts. Meaghan’s first work of creative nonfiction, Memories and Elephants: The Art of Casual Racism was released in December 2021, (updated Feb 2024) receiving excellent reviews.
Arts Mildura commissioned Memories and Elephants for a theatre adaptation, by Fiona Blair of The Old Van Theatre Company, which debuted on 23rd February 2024.
Also under development Meaghan has an historical fiction screenplay Two Mile to Town, co-written with her brother Dr Mark Harris, set in small-town Australia in the late 1960’s against an historically factual background of the assimilationist policies of the time.
“Katrak Harris’ lyrical voice guides you through. She’s a beautiful writer – polished and assured.”
Memories and Elephants: The art of casual racism is a collection of memoir-based essays set against the socio political background of Australian society.
In these essays—written with clarity and compassion by Meaghan Katrak Harris—you’ll explore the intersectionality of Australian culture, classism, racism and identity as the author has lived it. Drawing on her experiences of being a teenage mother, a member of a large multicultural family, a social worker, and an academic, Meaghan uses powerful personal narrative to illuminate often uncomfortable aspects of our society—the elephants in the room that have been historically downplayed and ignored.
Taking you from memories of country life to the city, from the street to national television, Memories and Elephants invites you to think beyond the dominant narrative of Australian identity.
Meaghan Katrak Harris
“We are all more than one story.”
“I am proud and honoured to endorse this book by Meaghan Katrak Harris as I have walked with her in our community and through life. This Book is a reflection of direct, real and personal experiences from within a community. These experiences exist in the shadows and often in silence and can leave scars on your heart. I celebrate Meaghan, who is brave to shine the truth with her and her family's real, honest and shocking events. This is also truth for many others; families, communities, and countries’”.
— Annabelle Sharman
Mutti Mutti Woman
Conversations with Sarah Kanowski
Interview 28th September 2023
ABC Radio
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Facilitator
Jan 28th 2023
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Testimonials
“It felt like a really safe place to share ideas and communicate with other likeminded women.”
“Discussion was open, the opportunity to write was great, the scene had been set to do this! Well set up, food was fab and Meaghan is Fabulous!”
“Meaghan tick tick tick”
“As soon as I saw the rainbow image on the overhead, I knew this was a safe space for me”.
