Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor Jerald Walker

Staff news! For the 2022-23 academic year, while Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen is on sabbatical, Jerald Walker will serve as guest editor. He’ll see the top pieces from our May submission period, which is underway now—but there’s a cap, so send your work in as soon as possible, or wait until September!

Along with two memoirs, Jerald Walker is the author of How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction and winner of the 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. His work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, the Iowa Review, and Mother Jones, and it has been widely anthologized, including five times in The Best American Essays series. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the James Michener Foundation, Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.