Join us as we celebrate WANA LIVE!'s first birthday! Our writer this week is the incomparable Jennifer Haigh AND we will be announcing an exciting new WANA LIVE! initiative as a thank you for being here with us this past year.

JENNIFER HAIGH is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel HEAT AND LIGHT won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Granta, The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Jennifer Haigh has been awarded grants by the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Boston. https://www.jennifer-haigh.com/