Anne Higgins teaches at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg Maryland. She is a member of the Daughters of Charity. She has had about a hundred poems published, in Yankee, Commonweal, Spirituality and Health, the Melic Review, the Centrifugal Eye, and a variety of small magazines. She has given poetry readings at local bookstores and colleges, and was invited to give a reading at the Art and Soul Conference at Baylor University in February of 2001, and at the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing in 2002. Garrison Keillor has read two of her poems on "The Writers Almanac" - on 10/8/01 and 8/8/10.She has published five books of poetry: At the Year's Elbow, Mellen Poetry Press… 2000; Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky, Plain View Press 2007; a chapbook, Pick It Up and Read, Finishing Line Press 2008; another chapbook, How the Hand Behaves, Finishing Line Press, 2009, and Digging for God, Resource Publications 2010.