Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh's first novel, MRS. KIMBLE, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She went on to write the Bakerton trilogy, which traces the rise and fall of a Pennsylvania coal mining town: BAKER TOWERS, winner of the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN/New England Award in Fiction; and HEAT AND LIGHT, named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her Boston novels include THE CONDITION, the story of a girl growing up with Turner's Syndrome, and FAITH, which explores the effects of the clergy sex abuse scandal on a local priest and his family. Her latest novel, MERCY STREET -- an intimate look at a Boston clinic on the front lines of the abortion wars -- won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her next novel, RABBIT MOON, will be published in April 2025.