
Jesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University. Her work has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space and The Oxford American.

Essays
2026

2012

2020

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
2018

2022

2022

2023

A New Generation Speaks About Race
2016

2006

2011

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020

2017

2013