Jennifer Haigh
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Jennifer Wasilko Haigh (born 1968) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her critically acclaimed novel Mrs. Kimble (2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Outstanding First Fiction.
Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, and is a 1990 graduate of Dickinson College. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Hartford Courant, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives on Boston's South Shore.
Her second book, Baker Towers (2005), was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship award for best book by a New England writer. Her third novel, The Condition will be published by HarperCollins in July, 2008.
[edit] External links
- The Condition - new novel due this summer
- Harper Collins Official site
- Jennifer Haigh Official site
- PEN.New England Official site
- "Women Trying to Find Their Way in a Dying Coal Town" from The New York Times.
- "Cutaway" A short story from Natural Bridge: A Journal of Contemporary Literature (Number 8, Fall 2002).
