[1] In 2015 she is the Stokes Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama.
Walker worked as an assistant professor in the English department at the University of South Alabama in 1980.
In 1999 she chaired the department, and 2007 was named Stokes Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing.
[10] A number of these were collections for which Walker served as editor, including Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy in 1991, Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing in 1992, and Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry in 2007.
Several of the books have received notable recognition: Irene Latham's What Came Before (2007) won the Independent Book Award in Poetry in 2007 and John Davis Jr.'s work was included in the 2015 Poetry House exhibit in New York City.