Name Colleen Higgs | Role Writer | |
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Books Lava Lamp Poems, Halfborn woman | ||
Colleen higgs everything in our house
Colleen Higgs (born 1962 in Kimberley, South Africa) is a South African writer and publisher. As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa for the past 15 years. As a publisher, she is both renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house, Modjaji Books.
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- Colleen higgs everything in our house
- Background
- Works
- Selected books published by Modjaji Books
- References
Background
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. She is currently the founder and publisher of Modjaji Books. 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.