Biographie de Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur "Genius" Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the first female author to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award.
She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.