Lise Haines

Professor Emerita, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies

Emeritus

At Emerson since 2002

Campus

Boston

Department

Writing, Literature and Publishing

Education

  • B.A., Syracuse University
  • M.F.A., Bennington College

Lise Haines is the author of five novels: Book of Knives(Sourcebooks, 2022); When We Disappear (Unbridled Books, 2018), for which Tom Perrotta wrote, “Haines is a novelist of great empathy and penetrating insight;” Girl in the Arena (Bloomsbury, 2010), a South Carolina Book Award Nominee; Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (Unbridled Books), a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and one of 10 “Best Book Picks for 2006” by the San Diego’s NPR station; and In My Sister’s Country (Penguin/Putnam), a finalist for the 2003 Paterson Fiction Prize, which the Boston Globe called “an authoritative fictional debut.”

Haines’ work has sold foreign, and film and TV rights, including options by HBO and Denver & Delilah. Short stories and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Ploughshares, Agni, PostRoad, and The Barcelona Review. She was a finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Award. Haines has been Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard.