Jerald Walker
May 9, 2016
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Jerald Walker is the author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, recipient of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction. His essays have appeared in many publications, and he has been widely anthologized, including four times in The Best American Essays. His next memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, will be published in fall 2016. Walker teaches at Emerson College in Boston.
Work from Jerald Walker has been included in Issues 17.2 and 14.1.