Blackberries, Blackberries
A self-described Black, country girl, Crystal E. Wilkinson grew up in rural Kentucky. She serves as the assistant director of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a charter member of the Affrilachian Poets, a group of performing African-American poets from the South, and serves as chair of the creative writing department for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts. Her work has appeared in American literary magazines and journals.