Frank X Walker (http://www.frankxwalker.com/) is the author of four poetry collections:
When Winter Come: the Ascension of York (University Press of Kentucky,
2008); Black
Box (Old Cove Press, 2005); Buffalo Dance: the Journey
of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), which won the Lillian
Smith Book Award in 2004; and Affrilachia (Old Cove Press, 2000).
A 2005 recipient of the Lannan
Literary Fellowship in
Poetry, Walker serves as Writer
in Residence and lecturer of English at Northern Kentucky University and is
the proud editor and publisher of PLUCK!, the new Journal of Affrilachian
Art & Culture.
