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.

J. Kates

Visiting Translator, Winter 2017

Sarah Seltzer

Visiting Writer, MFA in Writing

Yuri Herrera

Visiting VCFA Reads Author, Winter 2018

Kaveh Akbar

Visiting Poet, Summer 2022

Lauren Markham

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Winter 2018

Tess Lewis

Visiting Literary Translation Writer