Sue Ann Higgens
writer

Writing that features:

  • 20th century women

  • Cultural fault lines

  • Entangled families

Publications

Midnight in the Garden: An Anthology of Short Fiction

“By Any Other Name”
2025

Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race & Identity

2024

“Terribly Gorgeous”
2024

3rd & Oak Stories

Echoes:
An Anthology of Short Fiction

“Caboose”
2023

Sue Ann Higgens writes about 20th century women, cultural fault lines, and entangled families. She’s been a pastry chef, a birth doula, a sweatshop seamstress, and a high school teacher and principal. When not traveling, she lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.

Sue Ann’s fiction has appeared in Echoes: An Anthology of Short Fiction, 3rd and Oak Stories, and Midnight in the Garden: An Anthology of Short Fiction.

Her non-fiction can be found in Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity, ed. Michele Norris.

About Sue Ann

Forthcoming Book

BROAD CAST a novel

Ruby Broad isn’t so bad. She simply had the will to pursue her aspirations. Maybe she traded her husband's health and her one true friend for fame and the power to make a constellation of stars.

Can she redeem herself before her spectacular life ends?

Seeking Publication

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Where Sue Ann Writes…

Writing Awards Received

Honorable Mention
Winton Elementary School
Age 8