Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 211 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 217 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 28-21, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Ren?e Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 21-211 academic year. In 216, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.