Crystal Wilkinson

Crystal Wilkinson is a feminist writer from Kentucky whose fiction centers on Black women and communities in the Appalachian and rural South. Her books include Blackberries, Blackberries, The Birds of Opulence, and Water Street. She is a proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement and teaches at the University of Kentucky. Wilkinson was named Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 2021, the same year she won an O. Henry Prize.