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.

Khaled Mattawa

Visiting Poet & Translator, Summer 2021

Jericho Parms

Alumnx Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2017

Jamaal May

Visiting Poet, Summer 2016

Joy Castro

Visiting Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2016

Emily Bernard

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

James Hannaham

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2016