As a writer, she has published poems and stories in literary magazines in South Africa since 1990.

Higgs spent most of her childhood in Lesotho, her adolescence and young adulthood in Johannesburg, South Africa, and more recently lived for five years in Grahamstown.

Currently, Modjaji publishes short stories, memoir, novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction: their publication Whiplash by Tracey Farren was short-listed for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction award.

[1] Higgs is also a writer whose poems have been published in literary magazines since 1990.

[2] Her blog (on BooksLive) is frequently updated and features reviews, news, articles and insights on South African publishing.