Jesmyn Ward

By Melanie Kembrey
Updated October 31 2017 - 9:43am, first published October 25 2017 - 8:49pm

Generations of Jesmyn Ward's family have lived in DeLisle, a small rural town near the coast of Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. As a child, Ward spent her almost unbearably hot school holidays playing in the wooded forests and marshy streams that surrounded her home. More recently, she waded through flood waters when Hurricane Katrina raged through the town in 2005.

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