Crystal Wilkinson is the award-winning author of The Birds of Opulence; Blackberries, Blackberries; and Water Street. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky, where she is associate professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.
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Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; there were her ancestors, too, stirring, measuring, and brais... SEE MORE