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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward is the author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, and Salvage the Bones, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction. She is a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.


“A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

“I realized he was kin in telling this complicated, complex story that is Mississippi.”
March 10, 2025  By Jesmyn Ward
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How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

“When I discovered Butler’s work, I discovered myself.”
December 7, 2022  By Jesmyn Ward
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Jesymn Ward on Discovering for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

“I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us.”
April 20, 2022  By Jesmyn Ward
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The Fire Next Time is Here: Jesmyn Ward on Race in America

A New Generation of Black Writers Following in the Footsteps of James Baldwin
August 3, 2016  By Jesmyn Ward
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