Christine Higdon
BIO
Biography

Christine Higdon's new novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue (ECW Press) launched in September 2023 and has been nominated for the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading 2025 Evergreen Award. Her first novel, The Very Marrow of Our Bones, (ECW Press) won the Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize – Fiction, for 2018.

In 2020, she was long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize for "Courage, My Love" which was later published in Issue 15 of untethered magazine. She won Silver at the 2019 National Magazine Awards for her story "A Prayer for Ursula in Open D" published in the Queer Perspectives Issue of the Malahat Review, #205. Her short piece, “Because We’re Not at the Ocean,” was shortlisted for the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. “Promoted to Glory,” appeared in Plenitude, Your Queer Literary Magazine. The New Quarterly published “Dysplastic Man!” in the Winter 2018 issue #145.

Daughter of a Newfoundlander and a British Columbian, Christine was born and raised rural, BC. She has lived in Toronto, Ottawa, rural Nova Scotia, 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.

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GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
The Very Marrow of Our Bones
Publisher
ECW Press
Year
2018
Title
Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue
Publisher
ECW Press
Year
2023
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize – Fiction
Publication
The Very Marrow of Our Bones
Year
2018
Name
Forest of Reading: The Evergreen Award 2025 Nomination
Publication
Ontario Library Association
Year
2025
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