Annette Higgs

Guest Teaching Artist

Annette Higgs was born and grew up in Tasmania, leaving on her 18th birthday to study literature and law at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has lived, worked, and studied in Sydney, London, and Italy, and holds a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney. A Pushcart nominee, her short work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the USA, the UK, and India. Her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise won the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize and was published in July 2023.

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