Colleen Higgs was born in 1962. She spent most of her childhood in Lesotho, her adolescence and young adulthood in Johannesburg, and more recently, she lived for five years in Grahamstown. She now lives in Woodstock, Cape Town, with her husband and baby daughter. She has worked as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a materials writer and an academic development lecturer, and is currently programme manager at The Centre for the Book. Her poems have been published in literary magazines over the past fifteen years.

Halfborn Woman

Halfborn Woman is a chronicle of a journey towards life and towards wholeness. The poems explore the strangeness and the ordinariness of the poet's encounters with herself and the world. These poems are quirky, funny, moving, human. They reveal the darkness and anguish of intimacy without losing faith in the redemptive power of relationships, "being happy is not a thread or a quilt or a road/ it's like bees buzzing on a hot afternoon/ separately, then disappearing.

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