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
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
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