Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and 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 is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
Praise for Jesmyn Ward ""Jesmyn is, quite simply, the best of us."" --Ta-Nehisi Coates ""Ward is one of America's finest living writers. Ward's mesmerizing sentences, her dazzling descriptions of the natural and unnatural, the way she coerces time and guides readers between a heartbreakingly familiar story of torment and moments of sublime tenderness, suggests a protean artist in her element."" --San Francisco Chronicle ""Jesmyn Ward does not miss."" --LitHub ""[Ward is] as an artist in total command of American English and a master of the novel form."" --Boston Globe ""Jesmyn Ward is reimagining Southern literature...competing with giants like William Faulkner, while mapping territory all her own."" --New York Times Magazine ""One of the most important voices in contemporary literature."" --Atlanta Journal-Constitution