WRITER, SPEAKER, ENTIRE MOOD.
Tricia Elam Walker
a writer writing and other things…
Tricia Elam Walker is an award-winning author, attorney and educator. Her first novel, Breathing Room, was published by Simon & Schuster/PocketBooks in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Essence and other publications. She has provided commentary for NPR, CNN, the BBC and more. Tricia’s short stories are included in the O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South and other anthologies and her essays are published in Father’s Songs, Dream Me Home Safely, It’s All About Love and more.
As the venue’s 2018-19 visiting playwright, her plays, “Bold Moves” (4 short plays) and “With Glittering Eyes”, were produced by Hibernian Hall in Boston in 2018 and 2019
Her first children’s book, Nana Akua Goes to School, will be published by Random House in June 2020.
Tricia, a “Roxbury girl” from MA, received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her MFA from University of Maryland. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University in Washington, DC.
Currently, Tricia resides in Takoma Park, MD with her husband where you can find her working on short stories, essays, another novel, more children’s books and plays.
