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Annette Higgs is a writer living in Sydney, Australia. She was born and grew up in George Town, Tasmania, leaving on her 18th birthday to study literature and law at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has lived, worked and studied in Sydney, London and Italy, and holds a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney. A Pushcart nominee, her short work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the USA, the UK and India. Her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise won the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize and was published by Penguin in 2023 to critical acclaim.

Annette Higgs a writer living in Sydney, Australia. She was born and grew up in George Town, Tasmania. Her short work has been published in international and Australian literary journals and her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, set in Tasmania, won the Penguin Literary Prize 2022 and was published in 2023 to critical acclaim.