Liz Curtis Higgs' Biography

Liz Curtis Higgs is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, Bible teacher and radio personality, has inspired audiences worldwide.

In 1995, Liz received the "Council of Peers Award for Excellence," becoming one of only forty women in the world named to the Speaker Hall of Fame by the National Speakers Association. Feature articles about Liz have appeared in more than 250 major newspapers and magazines across the country, and she has been interviewed on more than 600 radio and television stations, including guest appearances on PBS/Religion & Ethics, NewsWeekly, A&E, MSNBC, NPR, CBC Canada, BBC Radio Scotland, Focus on the Family, and Janet Parhsall's America.

Liz is the author of twenty-one books. The most recent of her eleven non-fiction bestsellers include... Mad Mary: A Bad Girl from Magdala, Really Bad Girls of the Bible, and Bad Girls of the Bible. Her fiction to date includes Fair Is The Rose, Thorn in My Heart, Bookends, and Mixed Signals. In addition, Liz is a columnist for Today's Christian Woman magazine with her back page feature, "Life with Liz."

Liz is married to Bill Higgs, Ph.D., who serves as Director of Operations for her speaking and writing office. Liz and Bill share their 19th-century farmhouse in Louisville, Kentucky, with their two teenagers, Matthew and Lillian, and too many cats.