Karrie Higgins lives in downtown Salt Lake City. Her writing has appeared in Black Clock, DIAGRAM, Quarter After Eight, the Los Angeles Review, and the Los Angeles Times. Her essay, "The Bottle City of God," about the air pollution in Salt Lake City, won the 2013 Schiff Prize for Prose from The Cincinnati Review and will appear in the Summer 2014 issue. She is currently expanding "Bottle City of God" into a grimoire/memoir about gaining a magical worldview while living as a gentile among the Mormons.