Lise Haines

Lise Haines’s fourth novel, When We Disappear, will be published by Unbridled Books in June 2018. Her three earlier books are Girl in the Arena (Bloomsbury USA), a 2011 South Carolina Book Award Nominee, optioned by HBO; Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books), named a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and one of ten “Best Book Picks for 2006” by San Diego’s NPR station; and In My Sister’s Country (Penguin/Putnam), which The Rocky Mountain News selected as one of twelve “Stellar Debuts” for 2002. A past finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Fiction Award, she is senior writer in residence at Emerson College and a former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University. Her stories and essays have appeared in AGNI, Ploughshares, Post Road, Crosscurrents, The Barcelona Review, and elsewhere. Visit her at lisehaines.com. (updated 4/2018)
Read “A Conversation with Lise Haines” by Sherry Ellis in AGNI Online.