Jesmyn Ward
Biography
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and was a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and author of the novels SING, UNBURIED, SING, WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS and SALVAGE THE BONES, the latter of which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the author of 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 lives in Mississippi.
Jesmyn Ward