Colleen Higgs

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 since 1990. As a publisher, she is both renowned and respected as the founder of independent publishing house, Modjaji Books.

Colleen Higgs, South African author and publisher at Modjaji Books in 2022

Quotes

• My whole life has felt like a long deeply unsatisfying love affair with my mother. She is the beloved who doesn't love back.
  • My mother, my madness, Deep South, 2020, ISBN 978-1928476368

• I wanted my writing to offer an account of what it was like to take care of my mother, the details of that experience, the feelings, the lived experience. Women often do work like this that is unacknowledged, unseen. So, I guess I wanted to make it visible – not just my work, but this kind of work of taking care of elderly parents, of a child.
  • "Inter-review with Colleen Higgs about her memoir, My mother, my madness" in litnet Janet van Eeden, Colleen Higgs (13 November 2020)

External links

• Modjaji Books