Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
Lise HainesWriter-in-Residence (2002) B.A., Syracuse University; M.F.A., Bennington College http://www.lisehaines.com/ Lise Haines is the author of three novels, Girl in the Arena (Bloomsbury, October, 2009, to be published in the US, the UK and Turkey); Small Acts of Sex and Electricity, a Book Sense Pick in 2006; and In My Sister's Country, a finalist for the 2003 Paterson Fiction Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals and she was a finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Award. Tom Robbins writes about Girl in the Arena: "What Lise Haines has wrought is a kind of comic book without pictures, a wild pop novel about neo-Roman gladiators that—rocking with violent energy and bopping with social satire—can generate suspense, horror, laughter, and even twinges of tenderness." The Boston Globe called In My Sister's Country "An authoritative fictional debut." Margot Livesey wrote about Small Acts Of Sex And Electricity, "Here is an author who writes like no one else. Our world is the richer for her glittering work." Haines was Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and other teaching credits include UCLA, UCSB, and Stonecoast. She grew up in Chicago, lived in California for many years, and now resides in the Boston area.
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