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Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi, and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. He is the author of the novel Long Division, winner of the NAACP Image Award; the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, a New York Times Notable Book; and the bestselling memoir Heavy, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by the New York Times. He is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi, and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. He is the author of the novel Long Division, winner of the NAACP Image Award; the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, a New York Times Notable Book; and the bestselling memoir Heavy, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by the New York Times. He is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.