CRYSTAL WILKINSON is the author of two collections of short stories, Blackberries, Blackberries , which was named Best Debut Fiction by Today's Librarian magazine, and Water Street , which was honored as a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award. Both books are published by Toby Press . Wilkinson was also the recipient of the 2002 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature and the Al Smith Writing Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.
Her creative writing, both fiction and poetry, has been published in Southern Exposure, Calyx, African Voices and many other journals, as well as multiple anthologies.
She has most recently taught fiction in the MFA programs at Indiana University (Bloomington) and Spalding University (Louisville)
Wilkinson currently teaches creative writing at Morehead State University where she serves as writer in residence.
She's hard at work on two novels and two anthologies
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