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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward - Books

Jesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University.

Her work has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space and The Oxford American.

La Canción De Los Vivos Y Los Muertos

2024
Set in rural Mississippi, the novel weaves a poignant tale of a struggling African America

Men We Reaped

2024
This memoir is a poignant exploration of the author's life growing up in a poor, rural, pr

Sing, Unburied, Sing

2024
The novel explores the journey of a 13-year-old boy, his drug-addicted mother, and his bab

Salvage the Bones

2024
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction A hurricane is building over the Gulf o

Let Us Descend

2024
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library o

Navigate Your Stars

2024
A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, a