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.

Allison Grimaldi Donahue

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Carmen Maria Machado

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2019

Liara Tamani

Visiting Alumnx Fiction Writer, Winter 2019

Mojie Crigler

Visiting Alumnx Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2016

Terese Marie Mailhot

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2019

Tere Dávila

Visiting Writer, Winter 2018