‘I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks’
When the revolutionary intellectual found her voice, she helped a generation of Black Kentucky women writers find theirs too.
Crystal Wilkinson
Crystal Wilkinson is Kentucky’s poet laureate. She is the author of, most recently, Perfect Black and The Birds of Opulence. Her memoir Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts is forthcoming from Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House in 2023. She teaches English at the University of Kentucky.
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