Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received a MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renée 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 (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of Where the Line Bleeds; Let Us Descend, an Oprah Book Club pick and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize; 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.
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