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Crystal Wilkinson

Crystal E. Wilkinson (born 1962) is an African-American writer from Kentucky and founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a writing collective based in Lexington, Kentucky. See more on the history of the founding of the Affrilachian Poets at their website.
==Background==

Born in Hamilton, Ohio in 1962, Crystal Wilkinson was brought to her grandparents' farm in Indian Creek, Kentucky (about three miles east of Middleburg, Kentucky) when she was only six weeks old. The only Black family in the area and like many farmers in Appalachia, Silas Wilkinson grew cash crops of tobacco and corn and produced sorghum molasses; and, given the few jobs available for African-American women in eastern Kentucky, Christine Wilkinson cleaned and cooked in the homes of the local schoolteachers of Casey County. Wilkinson wrote that she "lived an enchanted childhood" and that her grandparents "gave me the freedom to explore the countryside and to write, to dream, to discover."〔()〕 She wrote about her childhood and her upbringing in her award-winning book, ''Blackberries, Blackberries'':
:"I grew up on a farm in Indian Creek, Kentucky during the seventies. I swam in creeks and roamed the knobs and hills. We had an outhouse and no inside running water. Our house was heated by coal and wood-burning stoves and we lived so far back in the woods that we could get only one television station. But it was a place of beauty - trees, green grass and blue sky as far as you could see. I am country. Being country is as much a part of me as my full lips, wide hips, dreadlocks and high cheek bones. There are many Black country folks who have lived and are living in small towns, up hollers and across knobs. They are all over the South—scattered like milk thistle seeds in the wind. The stories in this book are centered in these places."〔
Wilkinson attended Eastern Kentucky University in nearby Richmond, Kentucky and graduated with a B.A. in journalism in 1985. In 2003 she earned her Masters in Fine Arts degree (in creative writing) from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
From 1989-1995, Wilkinson served as a public information officer and community relations manager for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, editing their quarterly environmental newsletter and handling media relations for special projects. She also began volunteering her time to public service in Lexington, most notably the Roots and Heritage Festival, helping with publicity and coordinating the literary readings.
During this time, Wilkinson would gather with other Kentucky African American writers (including Kelly Norman Ellis, Ricardo Nazario y Colon, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, and Daundra Scisney-Givens) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center at the University of Kentucky where Frank X Walker was the assistant director. Inspired by the great poet Nikki Finney who was teaching creative writing at UK, they gathered to talk about their experiences and to celebrate the rural traditions of African Americans in Appalachia. In 2000, the same year that Wilkinson published her first volume, the short story collection ''Blackberries, Blackberries'' (The Toby Press, 2000), Frank X. Walker also published his first poetry collection, ''Affrilachia: Poems'' (Old Cove Press), thus formally promulgating the word that the group had coined for themselves, the Affrilachian Poets. The next year the writers celebrated their 10th year as a collective with a documentary produced by the Covington, Kentucky-based Media Working Group: "Coal Black Voices: The History of the Affrilachian Poets." With Walker serving as a consulting producer, producer/directors Fred Johnson and Jean Donohue captured the Affrilachian Poets in interviews that included not only their political but also their poet voices. "Voices" was broadcast on Kentucky Educational Television (see more at KET)〔http://www.ket.org/muse/coalblack www.ket.org/muse/coalblack〕 and video clips are available online.〔http://coalblackvoices.com/documentary/video.html coalblackvoices.com/documentary/video.html〕
In 1997 Wilkinson was hired as the Assistant Director for the (Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning ) in Lexington, Kentucky where she taught short courses and implemented many different programs and activities for Kentucky's literary arts scene. From 1997-2001 and again in 2008 she taught high school juniors and seniors who were juried into the creative writing discipline for the Governor's School for the Arts (Kentucky). She also served as chair of the creative writing department from 1997-2001. In the spring of 2004, she served as the Writer-in-Residence for the Appalachian College Association, conducting advanced creative writing classes and one-on-one instruction for undergraduate writing students at Cumberland College, Lindsey Wilson College and Berea College. She has taught creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University (2002–2003), the University of Kentucky and Indiana University-Bloomington (2004–2007).
Currently she is the Writer-in-Residence teaching writing and literature at Morehead State University and heads the BFA in Creative Writing Program there. She offers private consultations for aspiring writers.
She and her partner artist, Ronald Davis, are founders and editors of Mythium: A Journal of Contemporary Literature, celebrating writers of color and the cultural voice.
Wilkinson has presented many workshops and given readings in the U.S., including
* the International Conference on the Short Story in English at the University of Iowa
* the Ocean State Writers Conference
* the African American Women Writers Conference at the University of the District of Columbia
Wilkinson is featured in several television shows:
* a documentary by Frank X. Walker, "Coal Black Voices" (2001)
* "GED Connections," Kentucky Educational Television (2001)
* "James Still's Legacy," Kentucky Educational Television (2003)
* "Crystal Wilkinson, Poet," Connections with Renee Shaw, Kentucky Educational Television (2009)

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