Jerald Walker 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, recipient of the PEN/New England Award for Nonfiction; and, How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. His latest book, Magically Black and Other Essays, will be published in September 2024. His work has appeared in publications such as The Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including six times in The Best American Essays series and in the Pushcart Prizes. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the James A. Michener Foundation, Walker is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College.

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