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Jeanne Murray Walker

Biography

Jeanne Murray Walker

Jeanne Murray Walker's poems and essays have appeared in seven books as well as many periodicals, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Image, The Atlantic Monthly, and Best American Poetry. Among her awards are an NEA Fellowship, eight Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, and a Pew Fellowship in The Arts. She is Professor of English at The University of Delaware as well as a mentor in the Seattle Pacific University Low Residency MFA Program. In her spare time Jeanne gardens, cooks and travels.

Jeanne Murray Walker

Books by Jeanne Murray Walker

The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer's
by Jeanne Murray Walker - Mental Health, Nonfiction

Award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker tells an extraordinarily wise, witty and quietly wrenching tale of her mother's long passage into dementia. This powerful story explores parental love, profound grief, and the unexpected consolation of memory. While Walker does not flinch from the horrors of "the ugly twins, aging and death," her eye for the apt image provides a window into unexpected joy and humor even during the darkest days.