Literary Arts Institute Lectures

Jennifer Haigh: Reading and Conversation

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Presentation

Publication Date

3-24-2026

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Literary Arts Institute

Abstract

Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Rabbit Moon, was a finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature and will be published by Little, Brown on April 1. Her first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction and her latest, Mercy Street, was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her short stories have been published widely, in the Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Published in eighteen languages, her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michener Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Haigh is a Guggenheim fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Boston.

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