Cody Walker

Cody Walker (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, essayist, and educator. Family His brother Clay Walker is the Mayor of Denali Borough, Alaska. Academic studies Walker holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Career A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. He has been described as "Seattle's prince of the poetic one-two punch". In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Lenox, Massachusetts.