Jennifer Haigh is a bestselling and award-winning author renowned for her literary fiction and short stories. Her debut novel, Mrs. Kimble, earned the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, marking the beginning of a distinguished literary career. Her novel, Mercy Street—a gripping exploration of a Boston abortion clinic and the lives it intersects—won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Haigh is also the author of the acclaimed Bakerton trilogy, which includes Baker Towers (winner of the PEN/L.L. Winship Award), the short story collection News from Heaven (recipient of both the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN/New England Award), and Heat and Light, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Her other works include The Condition, a poignant family drama centered on a daughter’s Turner Syndrome diagnosis, and Faith, a searing look at the impact of the clergy abuse scandal on a devout Irish Catholic family.

A master storyteller and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Haigh has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and celebrated for its emotional depth, nuanced characters, and moral complexity.

Her latest novel, Rabbit Moon, was published by Little, Brown in Spring 2025. It was featured in People, named NPR’s Book of the Day, and praised by The Washington Post as “impressive for its scope, ambition, vibrant characters and its unsettlingly graphic, resonant story.”