Jennifer Haigh

Biography

Jennifer Haigh’s novel Mrs. Kimble (William Morrow, 2003) won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction. Her second novel, Baker Towers, was published by Morrow in 2005. Her short stories have appeared in Good Housekeeping, Hartford Courant, Alaska Quarterly Review, Idaho Review, and elsewhere.

See Work

FICTION / Fall 2010

Favorite Son

By Jennifer Haigh

Buck season opened—still does—on the Monday after Thanksgiving. In Bakerton it is a holiday of sorts. School was closed for the day, and I reported to Keener’s at 4 a.m. to serve eggs and sausages and countless cups of coffee to men in...

FICTION / Summer 2004

The Bottom of Things

By Jennifer Haigh

Ray and his second wife drove into Bakerton on a clear winter morning, in a Ford they’d rented at the Pittsburgh airport. They’d been off the highway for two hours, traveling a road that snaked through mountains, alongside streams and...