Vol. 15 Contributor Spotlight: Christine Higdon

Meet Christine Higdon! Christine’s fiction piece, “Courage, My Love” will be featured in our upcoming issue, Vol. 15!

How Christine describes “Courage, My Love” in 12 words or less:
“Wedding day jitters, a necktie, and the uninvited truth.”

Christine Higdon’s novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue was released in September 2023. Her first novel, The Very Marrow of Our Bones, won the Foreword Reviews Editor’s Choice Fiction Prize. Her short fiction won a National Magazine Award and has been published in the Malahat Review, Plenitude and the New Quarterly. She has been shortlisted and longlisted for CBC nonfiction and fiction prizes. The daughter of a Newfoundlander and a British Columbian, she lives sometimes in rural Nova Scotia, but mostly in Mimico, Ontario. There, she writes, works, hooks rugs, worries about the bees and longs for the ocean.

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