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Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon
Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon, Hubert McAlexander Chair of English at the University of Mississippi, is the author of the novel Long Division (soon to be re-released from Scribner) and the memoir Heavy.


Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

Kiese Laymon on Revision, Radical Friendship, and Community
November 10, 2020  By Kiese Laymon
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Please Make Us Stop: A Real Christian Tale of Mississippi House Bill 1523

Kiese Laymon Reports from a Room Full of Radical Christians
April 13, 2016  By Kiese Laymon
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What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying

Kiese Laymon on Justice, Honesty, and American Violence
February 16, 2016  By Kiese Laymon
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Rachel. Trayvon. Michael. Dying. Laughing. A. Fiction.

After Michael Brown: Kiese Laymon
August 11, 2015  By Kiese Laymon
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