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Lise Haines


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LISE HAINES is the author of three novels, Girl in the Arena, Small Acts of Sex and Electricity (a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and one of ten “Best Book Picks for 2006” by the NPR station in San Diego), 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.

Haines is Writer in Residence at Emerson College. She has been Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and her other teaching credits include UCLA, UCSB, and Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She grew up in Chicago, lived in Southern California for many years, and now resides in the Boston area. She holds a B.A. from Syracuse Univ
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LYRICS to the GIRL IN THE ARENA Book Trailer
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I'LL SET THE SCENE: IT'S CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD HAS COME TO PASS
A CRAZE BEGAN TO SWEEP THE NATION
A GLADIATOR SPORTS ASSOCIATION
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Girl in the Arena

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Book of Knives

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In My Sister's Country

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When We Disappear: A Novel

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