Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film for a reading with essayist and 2-time National Book Award finalist Jerald Walker.

Jerald Walker is an essayist and author of four books, including How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (2020) and his most recent Magically Black and Other Essays (2024), both finalists for the National Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Harvard Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Iowa Review, and has been anthologized multiple times in The Best American Essays series. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at Emerson College.

The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at OSU; the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film; and the College of Liberal Arts with support from Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele and Grass Roots Books and Music.