Rogers S. Walker

About

Rogers S. Walker is a writer and photographer raised in rural South Carolina who currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work examines the layered and often contested histories of the southern United States. He uses photography, poetry, and fiction to consider the generational ghosts of family and land that abide within the body to survive across great distances of time and space. His work seeks to understand and represent contested and ever shifting physical and cultural landscapes that define individual and collective identities. His creative writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Naugatuck River Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He has shown his photography at the Fotogram gallery in Amsterdam and at Harvard University. He studied photography and film at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently completing a master’s in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University.