Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short story collection, News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories, and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in the Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories Guernica, and many other places. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she studied at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and now lives in Boston. Author photograph credit: Rob Arnold.