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Interview | Crystal Wilkinson

September 8, 2021 Reading Women
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In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Crystal Wilkinson about her book, Perfect Black, which out now from the University of Kentucky Press.

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Books Mentioned

  • The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson

  • Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

Crystal Recommends

  • In Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis

  • Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikki Finney

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

  • Horsepower by Joy Priest

  • Affrilachia by Frank X Walker

  • Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS by Kelly Norman Ellis

  • Just Lookin' Out of the Window: Life's Lessons From My Mother by Kieth Wilson

  • dying in the scarecrow's arms by Mitchell L. H. Douglas


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About the Author

Crystal Wilkinson is the award-winning author of The Birds of Opulence (winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence), Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is a recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in the Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.

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