
Jesmyn Ward
Author · 12 books
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.
Series
Books

Cattle Haul
2012

Navigate Your Stars
2020

Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
2018

The Lonely Stories
2022

Mother Swamp
2022

Let Us Descend
2023

The Fire This Time
A New Generation Speaks About Race
2016

Where the Line Bleeds
2006

Salvage the Bones
2011

Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020

Sing, Unburied, Sing
2017

Men We Reaped
2013