Jennifer Haigh

　　Jennifer Haigh earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 2002. Since then she has published a short story collection, News From Heaven (HarperCollins, 2013) and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith (2011), The Condition (2008), Baker Towers (2006) and Mrs. Kimble (2003).

　　She has been awarded a James Michener fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Hemingway Award for debut fiction; the Massachusetts Book Award and the L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. Haigh has been a visiting writer at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts and has published book reviews in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe. Her sixth book, the novel Heat and Light, will be published by HarperCollins in May, 2016.