Crystal Wilkinson
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American poet and educator
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Crystal Wilkinson's Degrees
- Masters Creative Writing Spalding University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Crystal E. Wilkinson is an African-American feminist writer from Kentucky, and proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement. She is the winner of a 2022 NAACP Image Award, a 2020 winner of the USA Fellow of Creative Writing, and a 2021 O. Henry Prize winner. She teaches at the University of Kentucky. Her work has primarily been in involving the stories of Black women and communities in the Appalachian and rural Southern canon. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Kentucky 2021.
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