As founder of the , Walker is editor of: Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture; America! What’s My Name?; The “Other” Poets Unfurl the Flag (Wind Publications, 2007); and Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium.

“Walker’s work explores landscapes and place, social justice and American history,” said , assistant professor of at 91¶ĚĘÓƵ. “His great gift is channeling the voices of people from long past and from the near neighborhood.”

Walker is the author of: Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award; and Affrilachia (Old Cove Press, 2000), a Kentucky Public Librarians’ Choice Award nominee. He is also the author of two other poetry collections.

Walker’s poems have been converted into a stage production by the University of Kentucky theater department and widely anthologized in numerous collections, including: The Appalachian Journal; Limestone; Roundtable; My Brothers Keeper; Spirit and Flame – An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry; and Role Call – A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art.

He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and completed an MFA in writing at Spalding University. His latest work is a collection of poems, Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride.

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