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Jerald Walker

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.


Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

The Author of “Magically Black and Other Essays” Reflects on Serena Williams, Gang Signs, and “Scaring the White Folks”
September 10, 2024  By Jerald Walker
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Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut… and It All Goes Downhill From There

Whatever You Do, Stay Away From the "Kaleshion"
November 5, 2020  By Jerald Walker
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Navigating a World That Sees My Black Son’s Suffering as Incidental

Jerald Walker on the Systemic Disregard of the Medical Establishment
November 13, 2019  By Jerald Walker
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