Carolyn Walker began her creative nonfiction writing career as a columnist for The Clarkston News, her small town newspaper, where she learned the importance of writing about “everyday people,” who, she believes, contain the world’s best secrets. Walker is an award-winning writer of memoir, essays, and poetry, and she has been published in numerous journals and magazines. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Writing degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a Kresge Fellow in the Literary Arts. Every Least Sparrow is her story of raising a daughter with a rare disability, called Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome.