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Crystal Wilkinson

About

Crystal Wilkinson’s debut novel, The Birds of Opulence, received the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her other works include the short-story collections Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street. Wilkinson co-owns, with her partner, artist Ronald Davis, the Wild Fig Books & Coffee in Lexington, Kentucky.

Articles

Sky. Blood. Bone. Breath.

By Crystal Wilkinson
Issue 95, Winter 2016

Dig If You Will The Picture

His songs are this black woman’s anthem. His voice, my respite. His wildness: the power I needed to find my own.

By Crystal Wilkinson

Cleo, Cleo Black as Coal

By Crystal Wilkinson
Issue 100, Spring 2018

Shit, We’re All Consequences of Something

Reading Jones helps me write fictional lives that reflect my own dual experience as black and Appalachian.

By Crystal Wilkinson
Issue 112, Spring 2021

COVID Kitchen

I stand in our kitchen straddled between past and present.

By Crystal Wilkinson