Jesmyn Ward





Jesmyn Ward

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Jesmyn Ward is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University), and the Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama.

Her work has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space and The Oxford American.


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Revision is kicking my ass, and this song is helping me through the rough spots. It's an elixir of a few of my favorite things: Andre 3000 and Frank Ocean (artistic Southern boys), haunting melodies, allusions to space, sex, and an esoteric, violent sensei who must be Pai Mei. Enjoy.

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Published on August 01, 2012 20:16 • 82 views
Average rating: 3.76 · 7,475 ratings · 1,588 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Salvage the Bones
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 7,368 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
Where the Line Bleeds
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2013

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“it is the way that all girls who only know one boy move. Centered as if the love that boy feels for them anchors them deep as a tree's roots, holds them still as the oaks, which don't uproot in hurricane wind. Love as certainty.”
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone.”
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“the air that had been still before swoops and tunnels through the clearing, raising dust, making the boys close their eyes. Maybe Daddy is right; maybe Katrina is coming for us.”
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

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Literary Fiction ...: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees 24 47 Aug 25, 2009 07:39pm  
Constant Reader: 2010 Personal Reading List 113 240 Aug 23, 2010 08:47am  
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Literary Fiction ...: Jesmyn Ward and Nikki Finney Win National Book Awards 5 38 Jan 03, 2012 08:47am  
Constant Reader: Book fairs -- endangered or extinct? 15 41 Jan 28, 2012 07:51pm  
Literary Fiction ...: McFadden's "Gathering of Waters" reviewed by Jesmyn Ward in NYT 2 32 Feb 12, 2012 01:27pm  
Around the World ...: Mississippi 6 35 Mar 28, 2012 04:56am  
Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: Salvage The Bones 186 154 Apr 24, 2012 12:53pm  


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