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.

Diana Goetsch

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Emily Bernard

Visiting Writer, Winter 2020

Major Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Poet, Winter 2016

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Visiting Poet, Winter 2021

Christine Sneed

Visiting Fiction Writer

Camille Dungy

Visiting Writer [Poetry][CNF], MFA in Writing