Jesmyn Ward
American novelist from Mississippi whose work chronicles Black life and community in the rural South with lyrical intensity. Sing, Unburied, Sing won the National Book Award in 2017, her second such award. She is among the most powerful voices in contemporary American fiction.
Works
- Salvage the BonesImpoverished family struggles to survive Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi
- Sing, Unburied, SingFamily bound by trauma and ghost of a murdered relative
- Men We ReapedMeditation on grief and loss following young Black men's deaths in Mississippi
- Let Us DescendA woman enslaved seeks freedom and agency in colonial America
- Where the Line BleedsTwo brothers navigate violence and systemic racism in Mississippi