Profile

Along with two memoirs, Jerald Walker is the author of How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a 2020 nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays series.

He is a Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College.

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Terese Marie Mailhot

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2019

Dominic Bucca

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Summer 2022

Jamaal May

Visiting Poet, Summer 2016

Vandana Khanna

Visiting Poet, MFA in Writing

Laura van den Berg

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021