DURHAM, N.H. -- Author and essayist Jerald Walker will read from his work and hold a Q&A session Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at 5 p.m. at the University of New Hampshire in the Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, as part of the UNH Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Walker is the author of two memoirs, “The World on Fire: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult” and “Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption.” The recipient of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction, Walker has published essays in a wide range of notable journals and magazines, including The Harvard Review, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, The Oxford American, and Creative Nonfiction. His work has been widely anthologized, including four times in “Best American Essays.” He teaches creative writing at Emerson College in Boston.

The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation. For more information, contact the English Department at (603) 862-1313.