Kemeshia Randle Swanson, a college professor, is currently serving a joint appointment in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University. She previously dedicated ten years of service to the Department of English at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Her work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature, southern literature, gender and sexualities studies, and hip-hop and popular culture. She has published in edited collections such as Words, Beats, and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture; Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in "The Help"; and Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. She is author of Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, published by University Press of Mississippi.
Introduction
Chronology
Getting the South Right: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Nico Berry / 2009
Jesmyn Ward on Salvage the Bones
Elizabeth Hoover / 2011
In Salvage the Bones, Family’s Story of Survival
Michel Martin / 2011
Jesmyn Ward by Rebecca Keith
Rebecca Keith / 2012
New Memoir Recounts Black Lives "Reaped" Too Young
Rachel Martin / 2013
Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped
Tobias Carroll / 2013
The Rumpus Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Kima Jones / 2013
An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Roxane Gay / 2013
Jesmyn Ward on How Books Can Make Us Better People
Kiese Laymon / 2014
Bookforum Talks with Jesmyn Ward
Kyla Marshell / 2016
Literary Voice of the Dirty South: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Danille K. Taylor / 2016
Haunted by Ghosts: The Millions Interviews Jesmyn Ward
Adam Vitcavage / 2017
Powell’s Interview: Jesmyn Ward, Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
Rhianna Walton / 2017
Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Jennifer Baker / 2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
Natalie Y. Moore / 2017
Ghosts of Our Past: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Louise McCune / 2017
Ghosts of History: An Interview with Jesmyn Ward
Louis Elliot / 2017
Jesmyn Ward: "So Much of Life Is Pain and Sorrow and Willful Ignorance"
Vanessa Thorpe / 2017
For Jesmyn Ward, Writing Means Telling the "Truth About the Place That I
Live In"
Sam Briger / 2017
The Carnegie Shortlist Interviews: Jesmyn Ward
Annie Bostrom / 2017
Jesmyn Ward
Alma Mathijsen / 2018
Jesmyn Ward on Writing Honest Novels with Good Titles, Inhabiting Ghosts,
and Learning to Love Faulkner
Jennifer Acker / 2020
Two-Time National Book Award–Winning Author Jesmyn Ward on Her Novel Let Us
Descend
Ayesha Rascoe / 2023
Poured Over: Jesmyn Ward on Let Us Descend
Miwa Messer / 2023
Something Beautiful Out of the Darkness
Regina N. Bradley / 2023
"Writing is Restorative": A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward
Kemeshia Randle Swanson / 2024
Additional Resources
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