JERALD WALKER's latest book, Magically Black and Other Essays, which includes "It's Hard Out Here for a Memoirist," was published in September 2024. He is also the author of two memoirs and the essay collection How to Make a Slave, a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award. His work has appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including this sixth time in The Best American Essays. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the PEN/New England Award for Nonfiction, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Michener Foundation, Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.
- Contributors' Notes, The Best American Essays 2024.
Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michener Foundation, JERALD WALKER is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. His essays have appeared in publications such as The Harvard Review, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Oxford American, and Creative Nonfiction, and he has been widely anthologized. He is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult; Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the PEN/New England Award for Nonfiction, and How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, which includes "Breathe." This is his fifth appearance in the Best American Essays series.
- Contributors' Notes, The Best American Essays 2020.
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