Crystal Wilkinson
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Crystal Wilkinson

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CRYSTAL WILKINSON, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a memoir; Perfect Black, a collection of poems; and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. A former poet laureate of Kentucky, her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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