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Crystal Wilkinson Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
About the author:
Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black; The Birds of Opulence; Water Street; and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches at the University of Kentucky in the creative writing MFA program.
About the book:
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks is a lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes.