Conversations with Jesmyn Ward

by Kemeshia Randle Swanson (Editor)

Overview

Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496856678
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	08/21/2025
Series:	Literary Conversations Series
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.