Jennifer Haigh, native of western Pennsylvania and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, lives in Boston. Her short stories have been published in Granta, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Good Housekeeping, and many other publications. Her debut novel Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, Baker Towers, was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2006 PEN/L.L. Winship Award. Both have been published in nine languages. Her more recent works are The Condition (2008), Faith (2011) and News from Heaven, winner of the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award and the 2014 PEN/New England Award in Fiction. Jennifer Haigh’s fifth novel Heat and Light (Harper&Collins, 2016) earned a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named the Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the National Public Radio. In addition, the book has received The Bridge Book Award 2017 for Fiction, translated and published in Italy, thanks to the prize, by Bollati Boringhieri with the title L’America Sottosopra