Karrie Higgins

writer|artist

intermedia magician, ink maker, sewist, psychogeographer

Best American Essays Notables

The Strange Flowers  | The Manifest-Station 

Partial Match | DIAGRAM 13.4

30 Most Transformative Essays of 2016—Sundress Publications

A Tape Doesn’t Change a Goddamn Thing  | Full Grown People, nominated for the Pushcart Prize

Schiff Award for Prose 

Bottle City of God  | Cincinnati Review

NEA/Iowa Arts Council Art Grantee 2021

The Log Project

Exhibitions

2021 The Log Project, “One Year After, The Derecho Remembrance Exhibit,” CSPS Hall, August 19, 2021—November 4, 2021.

2020 The Log Project, a codex about the derecho that destroyed 700,000 trees in Cedar Rapids Iowa on August 10, 2020, using a green criminology framework. Photography, installation, ink drawings (with ink made from storm debris and trees) and etchings. Online due to COVID and widespread damage to the city. 

2020 CSPS Hall, Parallel Stress, an installation (canceled due to COVID)

2016 “Parallel Stress,” featured in “Outsider Art and Disability in Art and Design,” The Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver

2016 “Parallel Stress: I am trying to get as honest as I can,” James Franco Review 

2016 Featured in The Deaf Poets Society 



2016 Parallel Stress. Rogue Agent 

2014 The Valley of the Dry Bones (video) Intermedia Retrospective, University of Iowa

Essays and Interviews

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

Proxy Sister | Full Grown People

Proxy Sister – reprinted from Full Grown People  by Mapping SLC

The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Karrie Higgins

Roar Spotlight: Karrie Higgins

Prince and the Sparkle Brains: growing up epileptic, surviving sexual abuse, and loving Prince  | Huffington Post

Dear Able Friends: I am not your inspiration porn  | Huffington Post

Lucky to be Alive: Zika Coverage, Ableism, and the Terror of Disabled Bodies  | Huffington Post

A Queer Disability Anthology: Disability and LGBTQ Intersectionality  | Huffington Post

Nowhere, No Place, Like Home | Black Clock, Issue 16

State Lines | Quarter After Eight, Volume 11/12

Radio Frequency | Los Angeles Review

Collaborator on The Square Root of True, a Creative Nonfiction Round Table on the art of the micro-essay

Read and subscribe: Karrie Higgins on Substack.

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