Career
As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa for the past 15 years. Higgs spent most of her childhood in Lesotho, her adolescence and young adulthood in Johannesburg, and more recently lived for five years in Grahamstown. She now lives in Sybrand Park, Cape Town.
She has worked as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a materials writer and an academic development lecturer, and programme manager at The Centre for the Book.
Modjaji Books is an independent publishing house, based in Cape Town, publishing books written exclusively by women. Currently, Modjaji publishes short stories, memoir, novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction: their publication Whiplash by Tracey Farren was short-listed for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction award.
Higgs is also a writer whose poems have been published in literary magazines over the past 15 years. Her debut poetry collection, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004.
Her blog (on BooksLive) is frequently updated and features reviews, news, articles and insights on South African publishing.