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Born in Scotland, raised in Florida and educated in Canada, Harrison Cheung is an award-winning writer, Web community producer and Webmaster. His work includes corporate communications for a Fortune 500 company, online marketing for the U.S.'s largest learning institute, various studios, as well as the successful Internet marketing of film festival screenings, movies, and actors, including: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Charlton Heston, Heather Langenkamp and The Irish Screen.

Well before the Web buzz for The Blair Witch Project, Harrison Cheung was already developing successful Internet campaigns that were effective and less expensive than other media. Christian Bale was marketed as one of the biggest stars on the Internet. Fox/Searchlight tapped Cheung to develop a web-based education program for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Miramax deployed Cheung's web banner campaign for Velvet Goldmine. Lions Gate chose his Internet marketing approach for the indie hit, American Psycho. And noted feminist, Gloria Steinem, chose Cheung to handle West Coast press when she married. Jake Gyllenhaal's Bubble Boy and Donnie Darko reached cult status on video thanks to a powerful Internet marketing presence. The Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain was also a phenomenally successful Internet campaign.

But enough about the Internet...

What I really want to do is write... Cheung's first novel was a semi-finalist in the Writers' Guild Fiction competition. His short story, Helena's Pie was published in the literary magazine, Farfelu. He won a Bronze 2003 Telly Award for his short film, Rising of the Moon, about IRA hunger striker, Bobby Sands. He also won Honorable Mention (Sudden Fiction) in the Banshee Writing competition. A past winner of the Permanent Short Stories competition and the Canon Journalism Award in Canada, Cheung has been published in The Tribune, Zap2it, Roger Ebert's Little Movie Glossary, Wired, Canadian Datasystems, Beneath the Surface, The Silhouette, and CM Journal. He won an Editor's Choice Award from Australia's Net Week for one of his web sites; scored an A- review from Entertainment Weekly for another web project; and positioned a client to be crowned by Entertainment Weekly as One of the Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures of the Past Decade thanks to a combined Internet/publicity campaign.

Harrison is a 2006 recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award for his work in the community. He was the editor of Movie Gurus, a Los Angeles-based movie review webzine; a contributing film critic to SA Movie Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, AllMoviePortal, CelebrityWonder, the Sci-Fi Movie Page and the MRQE; and a member of the Internet Entertainment Writers' Association. Cheung is also a member of the Asian American Writer's Workshop and is not related to Connie Chung. Harrison also volunteers for the local SPCA -- because animals rights should be more than just lip service.

Harrison Cheung is represented by JDC Literary Agency.