Jennifer Haigh returns to Unbound to join our “After Dobbs” panel

We put each Unbound program together with a view to reflecting and engaging with some of the issues that we confront as a society. In the light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we are looking forward to welcoming three wonderful writers who have written brilliantly about abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

Unbound alum Jennifer Haigh’s most recent novel, Mercy Street, is set inside (and outside) a women’s clinic in Boston. Through expertly woven and inter-connected storytelling, Haigh creates an extraordinarily vivid and complex portrait of this most polarizing issue and the people who live on both sides of the debate. It’s a novel for right now, a story of the American present. We can’t wait to welcome Jennifer back to Columbia!

Jennifer Haigh is the author of seven books of fiction. Her new novel, Mercy Street, draws on her experience working at a women’s clinic and deals directly with the question of abortion rights. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been published in eighteen languages. A Guggenheim fellow and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University.  Find her online at www.jennifer-haigh.com.