Jeanne Murray Walker was born in Parkers Prairie, a village in northern Minnesota. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems (WordFarm Press, 2014) and The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage through Alzheimer’s (Center Street, 2013). Her book of sonnets, Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, will be out in 2019. A mentor in the Seattle Pacific University low-residency MFAProgram, Walker also teaches writing in prison and travels widely to give readings and run workshops.
