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.

Garrett Hongo

Visiting Poet, Summer 2019

Major Jackson

Distinguished Visiting Poet, Winter 2016

William Giraldi

Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference; Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writer, Winter 2023

Terrance Hayes

Visiting Poet, Winter 2019

Amy Wallen

Visiting Alumnx CNF Writer, Summer 2019

Yusef Komunyakaa

Visiting Poet, Winter 2022