Jerald Walker

Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. His work has appeared in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, River Teeth, The Missouri Review, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, and The Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including four times in The Best American Essays. His new book, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, is available now. Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.