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February 06, 2002 Poet, Fiction Writer Wilkinson To  Wilkinson, a native of southcentral Kentucky, will speak at 4 p.m. at Cherry Hall, room 125. "Blackberries, Blackberries," her first collection of short stories, was published by Toby Press in 2000. Her new book "Water Street 1979" will be released by Toby Press in the fall. She is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a group of performing African-American poets from the South. Wilkinson also is creative writing instructor and assistant director for the Carnegie Center for Learning and Literacy in Lexington. Her honors include being named Al Smith Fellow and being named a participant in the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writers' Week at Virginia Commonwealth University. The fiction reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Creative Writing Committee of the WKU English Department and the Women's Studies Program.
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