Christine Higdon's new novel, Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue (ECW Press) launched in September 2023. 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." 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.
