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.

Carmen Maria Machado

Visiting Fiction Writer, Winter 2019

Laura van den Berg

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021

Jeffrey Thomas Leong

Visiting Alumni Poet & Translator, Summer 2018

Khaled Mattawa

Visiting Poet & Translator, Summer 2021

Tarfia Faizullah

Visiting Poet, Summer 2016

Brendan Constantine

Distinguished Visiting Alumnx in Poetry