A gifted chronicler of the human condition
-Washington Post Book World
An expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity
-The New York Times
She has tapped the deep well of the human condition and relayed something profound about America at the turn of the 21st century.
-Publishers’ Weekly
Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Since then, she has published six more critically-acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Mercy Street -- named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and winner of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Published in eighteen languages, her books have won the Bridge Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Guggenheim fellow, she teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University.

Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, will be published by Little, Brown in April 2025.