Raised in Kent and Sussex, Harry has a Masters in Zoology from Oxford. He has worked as a Scientific Officer in the NHS, as a tutor-organiser for the Workers' Educational Association and as head of a trade union educational unit at a college of Further Education in Stoke-on-Trent.

He writes some poetry and is working on a set of tales about Greek and Roman philosophers.

Harry had a poem in issue 29 of Seam.