William Sterling Walker

William Sterling Walker's stories and prose have been anthologized in several collections, including the Lambda Award-winning Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction. His debut collection, Desire: Tales of New Orleans, was nominated as a 25th Annual Lambda Literary Foundation Awards finalist in the category of "LGBT Debut Fiction." He wrote the biographical entries on poet James Merrill and film director Douglas Sirk for The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, and has written for other publications, including the Boston Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Brooklyn College. In 2013, Walker received the first annual Emerging Writers Award from New Orleans' Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. A native of New Orleans, he now resides in Brooklyn, with his spouse, the artist Jeffrey Dreiblatt.