Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction with Salvage the Bones, a novel about familial love and community during a Gulf coast hurricane.^[1]

Life

She graduated from University of Michigan with an MFA.^[2] Ward was the John and Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year.^[3] From from 2008 to 2010 she had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. ^[4] She is assistant professor at the University of South Alabama.

Works

• "Cattle Haul", A Public Space 5
• Where the Line Bleeds. Agate Publishing. 2008. ISBN 9781932841381. 
• Salvage the Bones: A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781608196272. 

References

1. ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-book-awards-20111117,0,292135.story
2. ^ http://www.michigandaily.com/arts/jesmyn-ward-article
3. ^ http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/mfa/WiR.html
4. ^ http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/fellows.html

External links

• Jesmyn Ward discusses Where the Line Bleeds youtube

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