Karrie Higgins

Salt Lake City, Utah

I am a writer living in Salt Lake City, currently at work on "Superman is my Temple Recommend," an apocalyptic environmental memoir/grimoire in which I embrace getting sick from the air pollution, learn the art of forgery from one of the most notorious criminals in Mormon history, cast a magic spell for atonement to resurrect my oldest brother (or at least, save his soul), and gain my testimony during the waning days of the Mormon moment.

My essay, "Partial Match," was a Notable Essay for Best American Essays 2014. "The Bottle City of God" won the 2013 Schiff Award for Prose from the Cincinnati Review.

Read my work here:

The Manifest-Station: The Strange Flowers

DIAGRAM: Partial Match, Notable Essay for Best American Essays, 2014

Cincinnati Review, Summer 2014, winner of the Schiff Award for Prose: The Bottle City of God

Western Humanities Review, Winter 2014, 68.1: The 37 Miracles of Block 37

Black Clock: Nowhere, No Place, Like Home

Quarter After Eight: State Lines

The Los Angeles Review: Radio Frequency

Mapping SLC: Nowhere, No Place, Like Home (reprint, different edit)

Full Grown People: Proxy Sister

Mapping SLC: Proxy Sister (reprint)

  • Work
    • Writer
  • Education
    • MFA in Creative Writing, BA in English and Art History