Francesca Haig

Francesca Haig is an academic and author. She earned her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is a Visiting Writing Fellow at the University of Chester, where she worked for six years as a Senior Lecturer. She has published articles and chapters on topics ranging from pseudoscience to Shakespeare, but her principal research interest is Holocaust fiction. Her post-apocalyptic novel The Fire Sermon, the first in trilogy, is published in 2015 by HarperVoyager (UK) and Simon & Schuster (USA), and is being translated into more than 20 languages. Her poetry appears in various national and international journals, and her first collection, Bodies of Water, was published in 2006 (Five Islands Press).