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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2011, and again in 2017 for her latest novel,
Sing, Unburied, Sing
. She teaches creative writing at Tulane University, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017.
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Racism Is ‘Built into the Very Bones’ of Mississippi
Jesmyn Ward reflects on choosing to raise her children in her home state.
Jesmyn Ward
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