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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.

Terese Marie Mailhot

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2019

A. Van Jordan

Visiting Poet and Distinguished VCFA Alumnx in Film

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Wendy C. Ortiz

Visiting CNF Writer, Summer 2019

Vievee Francis

Visiting Poet, Summer 2020

Jaquira Díaz

Visiting CNF Writer, Summer 2022