Christine Higdon
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Christine Higdon

Literature & Fiction | LGBTQ2S+
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Christine's new novel, GIN, TURPENTINE, PENNYROYAL, RUE, launches September 2023. Her first book, THE VERY MARROW OF OUR BONES (ECW Press), won the Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize - Fiction, in 2018. Her story, "Courage My Love," was long-listed for the CBC 2020 short fiction award. She won Silver at the 2019 National Magazine Awards for her story "A Prayer for Ursula in Open D" published in the Malahat Review. Her short essay, “Because We’re Not at the Ocean,” was shortlisted for the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. “Promoted to Glory,” appeared in Plenitude. The New Quarterly published “Dysplastic Man!” in the Winter 2018 issue #145. Daughter of a Newfoundlander and a British Columbian, Christine was born in rural BC, and now makes her home in Mimico, Ontario, where, when she is not working, editing, reading, or writing, she hooks rugs and worries about the bees. Foreword INDIES 2018 FINALIST – Literary Fiction https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2018/ Kirkus Review https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christine-higdon/the-very-marrow-of-our-bones/ The Toronto Star https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2018/04/13/christine-higdons-debut-novel-the-very-marrow-of-our-bones-a-wondrous-book.html Open Book interview http://open-book.ca/News/Debut-Novelist-Christine-Higdon-on-Character-Synaesthesia-the-Importance-of-Names
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