In the time since his graduation from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has also been a visiting professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT and in the MFA in Nonfiction Program at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, arguably the best MFA program in America, and prior to teaching at Emerson College, he was a professor of English at Bridgewater State University. He has been published in publications such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, Mother Jones, Oxford American, and The Iowa Review, amongst others, and he has been anthologized in the Best American Essays series five times. Walker, a professor of creative writing at Emerson College, has been known for years as one of the most powerful black voices in literary America, publishing two former memoirs dealing with his experience as a black boy growing up on the Southside of Chicago during the 1970s and ‘80s, and numerous essays in various publications, most of them on the topic of race and how it has shaped his life and the lives around him.
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