Christine Higgins was born in Staten Island, New York. She has been writing poetry since the 3rd grade when Sr. Thomas created a writers' club that met before the school day began. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, she moved to Baltimore to attend The Writing Seminars of The John Hopkins University. For ten years, she taught writing at Loyola University, and also for the Masters in Writing Program at The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. A series of personal events led later in life to a rewarding career, including research, where she has focused on substance use disorders and mental health. Her work has appeared widely in numerous print and on-line journals. She is the author of two chapbooks, coauthor of In the Margins: a Conversation in Poetry (Cherry Grove Collections, 2017), and Plum Point Folio, a collection of her poems and her husband's photographs. Her awards include a residency at the McDowell Colony, and Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council in Poetry and Non-Fiction. She is currently at work on a memoir about grief.

Other poems on the web by Christine Higgins:
Three poems
"The Naming"
Three poems
Four poems

Christine Higgins's Website.

About Hallow:

"Emily Dickinson said to tell all the truth but tell it slant. Christine Higgins tells it plain but it can still dazzle slowly. Like Dickinson, she's a keen observer of the world around her but Higgins's world is much larger, more vivid and densely populated. There's the teenage boy who covets a hyacinth, a guy from the Sixties wearing Goodwill cowboy boots, a murdered woman who named herself Hawa, desire, and a series of Jesuses, one of whom is standing outside the methadone clinic in blue jeans and black boots, smoking his last cigarette before he goes in to play Santa Claus. Enter her world and prepare to be enlightened."
—Veneta Masson

"Christine Higgins understands that her subject is as large, as unmanageable as an ocean. She brings to it her faith and compassion. In one poem she tells us 'I will be present, responsive/ to the soulful vibrations of this world.' And yes, she is responsive, movingly, persuasively, so. These are earned, terribly moving, and yes, soulful poems as large as the heart that made them."
—Philip Schultz

"In Hallow, Christine Higgins restores the reader's faith; her poems convey the world's pain and beauty in language that is careful and caring. These poems comfort us because they don't look away from difficulty, from tragedy; they are open-hearted enough to let any reader in, but especially the reader who needs poems to replenish them after loss."
—Rachel Eisler