Next week, the creative writing program will host its first visiting author of the academic year. Award-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh will give a writer’s talk on Thursday, October 24 at 2:00pm in Faculty Hall 208. Later that evening, at 7:30pm in the Curris Center Theater, she will read from her work. We hope to see you there!
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BIO:
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.
Haigh has been called “(a) gifted chronicler of the human condition” by Washington Post Book World, and an “expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity” by The New York Times. The author Richard Ford described Haigh’s novel Heat & Light as “Pure novelistic virtuosity. It’s brilliant, beginning to end.”
Haigh’s visit to Murray State is made possible by the Clinton and Mary Opal Moore Appalachian Writer’s Residency, which was established with gifts from Shirley Moore Menendez, John C. Moore, Tom Moore, Nancy Moore Waldrop and Jayne Moore Waldrop in honor of their late parents and their family’s eastern Kentucky roots.
