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Podcast: UC San Diego (Video)
Episode: A Conversation with Jesmyn Ward - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2025
Description: Jesmyn Ward has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation, proving her âfearless and toughly lyricalâ voice in novels, memoir, and nonfiction. She's been called âthe new Toni Morrison.â Ward is a MacArthur âGenius Grantâ recipient and in 2017, she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fictionâjoining the ranks of William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Philip Roth, and John Updike. Her books include "Let Us Descend," "Sing, Unburied, Sing," "Salvage the Bones," and "Navigate Your Stars." The professor of creative writing at Tulane University joins host Dean Nelson fo...