David Haight

David Haight was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned a degree in English and Philosophy from Hamline University, where he later completed his MFA in Creative Writing and received the Quay W. Grigg Award in Literary Study. He is the author of five books: the novels Overdrive (2006), Me and Mrs. Jones (2012), and From There to Back Again (2024), and the short story collections Lemon (2015) and Katharina (and Other Magnificent Disasters) (2017). His work draws inspiration from James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Friedrich Nietzsche. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Morgan.