Joanna Higgins

Joanna Higgins has taught literature and writing at colleges and universities in Michigan, England, Pennsylvania, New York, and Hawaii. Her fiction and plays have received recognition and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She has written a novel, A Soldier's Book, which Bobbie Ann Mason called, "Powerful, beautifully written, painful, and evocative," and a collection of short stories, The Importance of High Places (Pub Group West), which Kirkus Reviews praised as "fascinating tales of spiritual transcendence" and "a memorable experience."