Jennifer Haigh’s novel HEAT AND LIGHT was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Slate Magazine, and has received a 2017 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her previous books — News from Heaven, Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble — have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in fiction, and have been published in sixteen languages. Haigh’s short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. A native of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now lives in Boston. (Co-sponsorship for this reading is provided by the Weiss Chair of the Humanities.)