Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Genre	Literary Fiction
Notable works	Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition

Jennifer Haigh ) is an American novelist and short story writer.

She was born Jennifer Wasilko in Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvania coal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her fiction has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Good Housekeeping, and many other publications.

Her debut novel Mrs. Kimble -- telling the story of a mysterious con man named Ken Kimble through the eyes of his three wives -- (2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction.

Her second novel, Baker Towers (2005), depicts the rise and fall of a western Pennsylvania coal town in the years following World War II. It 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, was published by HarperCollins in July, 2008. It traces the dissolution of a proper New England family when their only daughter is diagnosed with Turner's Syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality that keeps her from going through puberty.

A fourth novel, Faith, will be published by HarperCollins in May, 2011.

She now lives in the Boston area.

External links

• The Condition
• Harper Collins Official site
• Jennifer Haigh Official site
• Jennifer Haigh reads for "The Drum" Literary Magazine for your ears
• 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).
• "A Child With a Problem, a Family With an Excuse" from The New York Times.
• "Broken Star" A short story from Granta (Number 103, Autumn 2008).

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