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Jesmyn Ward

About

Jesmyn Ward is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and the memoir Men We Reaped. Her latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing, published by Scribner in September 2017, is excerpted in the Spring, Summer, and Fall 2017 issues of the Oxford American. She lives in DeLisle, Mississippi.

Articles

Issue 96, Spring 2017

Flayed

When Pop tell me he need my help and I see that black knife slid into the belt of his pants, I follow Pop out the house, try to keep my back straight, my shoulders even as a hanger; that’s how Pop...

By Jesmyn Ward
Issue 97, Summer 2017

Cut

Fear rises to my shoulders, up my neck, a bubbling choke. I don’t know what I’m afraid of.

By Jesmyn Ward
Issue 98, Fall 2017

Jagged

He takes his foot off the gas, and the car begins to slow. I put my left foot over near the pedal, and I am sitting in his lap in the middle of the car for one awful, hilarious moment.

By Jesmyn Ward