About
Brief Bio:
Ran Walker (he/him) is an award-winning author and filmmaker, who has written 35 books. Specializing in very short creative forms, he serves as an associate professor at Hampton University and lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.
Extended Bio:
Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of 35 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.
He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. His collection Keep It 100: 100-Word Stories was selected by Kojo Baffoe for South Africa's Sunday Times' Best Reads of 2021.
Ran is also the recipient of both a Mississippi Arts Commission/NEA artist grant and an artist mini-grant. He served as an Artist-in-Residence with the Mississippi Arts Commission. Additionally, he is a past participant in the Hurston-Wright Writers Week Workshop and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Callaloo Writers Workshop. He has been featured in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly and at the Library Journal Day of Dialog. He has served as a judge for several regional, national, and international contests, and he also regularly writes for Writer's Digest magazine, where he serves as a contributing editor.
Since October of 2019, Ran has been writing microfiction and prose poetry exclusively and is the creator of the "100 x 100 micro novel" (also known as the "Novel in 100-Word Stories"). He continues to find new and novel ways of exploring both microfiction and prose poetry.
Ran's novel The Last Bluesman (formerly Mojo's Guitar) was translated by Philippe Loubat-Delranc and published by Parisian publisher Éditions Autrement as Il etait une fois Morris Jones. (More information can be found under the "Français" tab under "Writings" on this site.) A number of his poems and stories have been translated and published in Arabic and Greek.
Ran won an award from the Virginia Black Film Festival for his short film The Last Semester, a film he wrote and directed, using college students in front of and behind the camera. He continues to work on various short film projects, with an eye toward films that are around one minute in length. He has also collaborated with Virginia Public Media on educational videos for students across the state of Virginia.
Ran is a graduate of Morehouse College (BA in English), Pace University (MS in Publishing), and George Washington University Law School (JD). He also has a Certificate in Book and Magazine Publishing from the New York University Summer Publishing Institute and has done graduate work in English at Mississippi State University. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (inducted through Chi Chapter), PenAmerica, and the Horror Writers Association, and he serves on the executive board for the James River Writers, as well as the NaNoWriMo Writers Board.
Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and much better half, Lauren, and his wonderful daughter, Zoë.
Ran Walker (he/him) is an award-winning author and filmmaker, who has written 35 books. Specializing in very short creative forms, he serves as an associate professor at Hampton University and lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.
Extended Bio:
Ran Walker (he/him) is the author of 35 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.
He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. His collection Keep It 100: 100-Word Stories was selected by Kojo Baffoe for South Africa's Sunday Times' Best Reads of 2021.
Ran is also the recipient of both a Mississippi Arts Commission/NEA artist grant and an artist mini-grant. He served as an Artist-in-Residence with the Mississippi Arts Commission. Additionally, he is a past participant in the Hurston-Wright Writers Week Workshop and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Callaloo Writers Workshop. He has been featured in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly and at the Library Journal Day of Dialog. He has served as a judge for several regional, national, and international contests, and he also regularly writes for Writer's Digest magazine, where he serves as a contributing editor.
Since October of 2019, Ran has been writing microfiction and prose poetry exclusively and is the creator of the "100 x 100 micro novel" (also known as the "Novel in 100-Word Stories"). He continues to find new and novel ways of exploring both microfiction and prose poetry.
Ran's novel The Last Bluesman (formerly Mojo's Guitar) was translated by Philippe Loubat-Delranc and published by Parisian publisher Éditions Autrement as Il etait une fois Morris Jones. (More information can be found under the "Français" tab under "Writings" on this site.) A number of his poems and stories have been translated and published in Arabic and Greek.
Ran won an award from the Virginia Black Film Festival for his short film The Last Semester, a film he wrote and directed, using college students in front of and behind the camera. He continues to work on various short film projects, with an eye toward films that are around one minute in length. He has also collaborated with Virginia Public Media on educational videos for students across the state of Virginia.
Ran is a graduate of Morehouse College (BA in English), Pace University (MS in Publishing), and George Washington University Law School (JD). He also has a Certificate in Book and Magazine Publishing from the New York University Summer Publishing Institute and has done graduate work in English at Mississippi State University. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (inducted through Chi Chapter), PenAmerica, and the Horror Writers Association, and he serves on the executive board for the James River Writers, as well as the NaNoWriMo Writers Board.
Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and much better half, Lauren, and his wonderful daughter, Zoë.
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