Jerald Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Review, Mother Jones, the Iowa Review; the Missouri Review; the Oxford American; the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Creative Nonfiction, as well as four times in Best American Essays. He is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, Redemption, which won the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award for Nonfiction, and How to Make a Slave and Other Essays which is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
