Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News From Heaven and six critically acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition, Faith and Heat and Light, named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her work has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction and has been published in eighteen languages. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest novel, Mercy Street, was published in February 2022.