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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.

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Jesmyn Ward It depends on the sentence. Some sentences come to me whole and true, their rhythms already intact. These take seconds to write. Other sentences, espe…moreIt depends on the sentence. Some sentences come to me whole and true, their rhythms already intact. These take seconds to write. Other sentences, especially those occurring at the end of a chapter or at the end of a book or at the beginning of a chapter or a book, take much more work. I can work on these sentences for months before they sound right. (less)
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Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Salvage the Bones

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Let Us Descend

3.69 avg rating — 36,869 ratings — published 2023 — 31 editions
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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The Fire This Time: A New G...

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Where the Line Bleeds

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Navigate Your Stars

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Mother Swamp (A Point in Ti...

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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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“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

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July is general/literary fiction month. This is the third of our advance polls through September (check your messages...I sent out a broadcast about this to all members). Voting is open until April 15th.

Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward
 
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Faithful Faithful by Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman
 
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The Dream Daughter The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain Diane Chamberlain
 
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Fates and Furies Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Lauren Groff
 
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