Jane Higgins

Jane Higgins is the author of the debut YA novel, THE BRIDGE, (Tundra Books, 2012), a post-apocalyptic story about young people caught up in a war. It won the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing (Text Publishing) and the YA Readers’ Choice award in the 2012 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. In her day job, Jane is a sociologist specializing in youth studies and writing nonfiction about young people in transition from school. Recently she has turned to writing fiction for young adults. She is currently working on a sequel.