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.

Alexander Chee

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2022

Terrance Hayes

Visiting Poet, Winter 2019

Emily Raboteau

Visiting Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2017

Alison Bechdel

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Summer 2016

Chen Chen

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020