Arlene L. Walker

Arlene L. Walker was born in California, spent her summers growing up in Muskogee, Oklahoma. For 30 years she was a court reporter in the Los Angeles County Superior Court before enrolling in and graduating from UCLA Extension Writers' program. She was granted the PEN USA CASP award, and was a finalist in the 2011 PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her work has appeared A Letter For My Mother anthology as well as on the WOW-Women Online Writing website.