Jenny Higgins

Jenny Higgins is a Canadian author and researcher residing in Flatrock, Newfoundland and Labrador.^[1] She specializes in Newfoundland and Labrador history and has written for the provincial Department of Education and the Maritime History Archive.^[2] Her debut novel, Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, won the Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award.^[3][4] Her second book, Newfoundland in the First World War, won the 2017 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award.^[5] Higgins has written pieces for CBC, the Memorial University's Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website, as well as other magazines and newspapers.^[6]

Life

Higgins attended the Memorial University of Newfoundland for her undergraduate program, earning a bachelor's degree in English. She received a master's degree from Queen's University. She managed the English Language Research Centre at the Memorial University of Newfoundland from 2010 to 2012.^[7] In 2019, she became the "Wikipedian in Residence", a position offered through the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.^[8] She is an organizer of "Wiki-Edit" events at the A.C. Hunter Library, with a focus on adding more information about the province of Newfoundland and Labrador to Wikipedia.^[9]

Works

• Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster (2014)^[10]
• Newfoundland in the First World War (2016)^[11]

Awards

• 2015 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster^[3][4]
• 2017 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Newfoundland in the First World War^[5]