![]() Prior to joining Emerson College, Walker was an associate professor of American Literature at Bridgewater State University. ![]() and a Massachusetts Cultural Council of the Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2018), the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction (2021), a Pushcart Prize (2021), a James A. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, his third book, was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Winship/PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. His first book, Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption, was awarded the L.L. ![]() He has written book reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Walker's essays have appeared in magazines such as The Harvard Review, The Oxford American, Creative Nonfiction, The New England Review, and Mother Jones, and they have been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays (2020, 2014, 2011, 2009) and twice in The Best African American Essays (2009, 2010). in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Iowa. ![]() Walker was born in Chicago, he received his MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, as well as a Ph.D. Jerald Walker is an American writer and professor of creative writing and African American literature at Emerson College. ![]()
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