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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) — which was also shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (2018) — and Salvage the Bones (2011).
She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.