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Jesmyn Ward

Author

Bio

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

Jesmyn Ward Books

Let Us Descend book cover

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward
Fight of the Century book cover

Fight of the Century

Michael Chabon
Where the Line Bleeds book cover

Where the Line Bleeds

Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing book cover

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time book cover

The Fire This Time

Jesmyn Ward
As I Lay Dying book cover

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner
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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler
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