Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir; Perfect Black; a collection of poems; and three works of fiction—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. Named Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Foundation and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Bush-Holbrook Professor in Creative Writing.
Learn more at https://www.kaee.org/post/conference-wilkinson
Thursday November 14, 2024 12:00pm - 1:15pm EST
Ballroom A/B
1. Acoustic Bat Monitoring, Susan Brown 2. Through the Trees, Brook Crenshaw 3. Kentucky's Envirothon, Johnna McHugh 4. Kentucky's PEEC, Wesley Bullock 5. Nature Explorer Program, Kaitlynn Gootee 6. Environmental Days at Maywoods, Kelly Watson 7. Empowering Tomorrow's Stewards, Aidan Wells 8. Improving Environmental Stewardship, Jody Thompson 9. Misconceptions about Caves, Jeanine Huss 10. Citizen Science in Beargrass Creek, Ella Swinger 11. Kentucky Green Schools 12. Every Park in a Classroom, Chris Anderson 13. Using the EE21 Survey, Nicholas Burke
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:45pm - 4:00pm EST
Ballroom A/B
