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Female
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(Pennsylvania)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer.
She was born in 1968 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. As of January 2014, Haigh lives in Boston.
Awards and honors
- 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award, Mrs. Kimble
- 2006 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Baker Towers
- 2012 short story Paramour included in The Best American Short Stories
- 2014 PEN/New England Award, News From Heaven