Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Kiese Laymon is the Ottilie Schillig Professor of
English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, as well as the author of Heavy: An
American Memoir, the novel Long Division, and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill
Yourself and Others in America. Heavy was winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction, LA
Times Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and
Audible’s Audiobook of the Year.
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