Writing
For Liberation

Specialty:Journalism, descriptive nonfiction and audio broadcast. Exposing injustice, promoting prison abolition and sentencing reform, and advocating for recidivism reduction and building safer communities.

Bylines:Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Jewish Currents, Waging Nonviolence

Specialty:Poetry and personal essays on California prison conditions, advocacy writing for incarcerated people and the betterment of their environment.

Bylines:Apogee Journal, ZEKE Magazine, Brooklyn Museum

Specialty:Creative writing and memoir. Currently working on memoir with positive moral message related to life story.

Bylines:Brothers in Pen

Specialty:Journalism, essays, op-eds, and poetry related to incarceration, racial and social issues, sports, and related topics. Founder of 23and1 magazine.

Bylines:23and1.org, The Abolitionist, Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:Essays and illustrations that explore the psychological and physiological harm done by the carceral system, while re-imagining justice and healing.

Bylines:Scalawag Magazine, Justice Arts Coalition, The Other Almanac

Specialty:A Florida based writer bringing slices of prison life stories, poetry, personal essays, and op-eds with a feminist perspective grounded in prison reform and radical restorative justice principles.

Bylines:Exchange for Change, PEN America, Prisoner Express

Specialty:Prison publishing and reporting on social justice issues, prison conditions and reform, rehabilitation and physical trauma associated with criminality.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project, Davis Vanguard, Pen America

Specialty:Investigative journalism, poetry, and fiction.

Bylines:The Progressive, Vera, Prism Reports

Specialty:Journalism and first-person feature reporting that examine incarceration, mental health, violence, accountability, and justice policy.

Bylines:Truthout, Inquest, HuffPost, Prism Reports

Specialty:Poetry, nonfiction, and self-help books.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:Taking the reader on a journey of the prisoner's physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project, Prison Writers, Justice Arts Coalition

Specialty:Journalism and poetry on topics of injustice, childhood trauma, human rights, immigration and deportation, incarcerated artists, and rehabilitation success stories (Spanish and English).

Bylines:San Quentin News, LA Times, Davis Vanguard

Specialty:Journalism, books, and poetry focused on prison and women's issues, including health care, education, politics, and more.

Bylines:Pen America, Minutes to Six, Oxford University Press

Specialty:Storytelling that is grounded in abolition, connected to community, and deeply inspired by radical love and resistance.

Bylines:International Examiner ("On the Fence Line" column), The Guardian, Inquest

Specialty:Journalism, personal essays, and poetry.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project, Shadowproof

Specialty:Social and criminal justice legislative and judicial issues.

Bylines:The Houston Chronicle, The Marshall Project,The Crime Report

Specialty:Harm Reduction, HIV and Hepatitis prevention and awareness and related issues, as well as re-entry concerns for Washington State prisoners.

Bylines:Filter Magazine, Jewish Currents, Seattle Journal of Social Justice

Specialty:Stories that highlight the evolution of incarcerated people. Journalism, first-person feature reporting, essays, and even opera.

Bylines:Inquest, The Marshall Project, TED Talks

Specialty:Solutions/investigative journalism related to prison conditions and advisor to organizations seeking to end over-incarcerating people as a means to solve societal problems, such as mental illness and substance use disorders.

Bylines:Solitary Watch, Los Angeles Times, The Appeal

Specialty:Journalism.

Bylines:Papertrail

Specialty:Journalism, op-eds, personal essays.

Bylines:The Washington Post, Black Lipstick, The Marshall Project

Specialty:Reporting, investigative journalism and essays on Texas prison conditions, solitary confinement, and the intersection of race, gender and place.

Bylines:Prism, TruthOut, Dallas Morning News

Specialty:Testimonial and creative essays, op-eds and poetry offering an active view of carceral hardships from a woman's perspective in Texas prisons.

Bylines:The Appeal

Specialty:Journalism

Bylines:Inquest,Inside Higher Ed, Prism Reports

Specialty:Personal essays and memoirs about life inside a Florida Correctional Institution, focusing on the day to day life inside and how we find the strength to remain our true selves.

Bylines:The Wild Word,Prison Journalism Project, Scalawag Magazine

Specialty:Currently serving a sentence at a prison in Texas, Marissa is a survivor of intimate partner violence and is using her immense pain and turning it into passion.

Bylines:The Appeal

Specialty:Journalism related to prison reform and prison conditions in Alabama, as well as deaths in custody, legal news, inside organizing, and the relationship between economics and incarceration.

Bylines:San Francisco Bay View, Free Alabama Movement, The Alabama Solution Movie

Specialty:Philosophy and politics, sometimes woven throughout personal stories and essays derived from experience in Ohio prisons

Bylines:Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy, Il Manifesto, the Portager

Specialty:Personal essays uncovering the common humanity in uncommon experiences, recovery and self-development, feminism and women's rights.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project, Charlottesville Tomorrow

Specialty:Creative writing, poetry and personal essays

Bylines:The Marshall Project, Apogee Journal, The Drift

Specialty:Reporting and writing on the intersection of issues affecting both incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, as well as education, aging, and women's issues in prison.

Bylines:Tampa Bay Times, Literary Hub, Prison Legal News

Specialty:Feature magazine writing, reported pieces meshed with memoir.

Bylines:Literary Hub, PEN America, Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:A variety of journalism related to justice and prison issues, including politics of incarceration, philosophy, and biology.

Bylines:Prism Reports, The Masssachuests Review, Defector

Specialty:Op-eds, personal essays, creative non-fiction, and creative shorts focused on Colorado prison issues as well as sociology, love, and spirituality.

Bylines:Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:Investigative and whistleblower articles and op-eds regarding prison conditions in New York State prisons, particularly in regards to jailhouse lawyering and LGBTQ+ rights and experiences. Poetry, public interest and pop culture news, as well as advice columns for LGBTQ newsletters.

Bylines:What’s the Tea, New York Daily News, Solitary Watch

Specialty: Reporting that focuses on 30+ years of lived carceral experience, including essays, feature articles and investigative news on prison conditions, rehabilitation, reform, social justice and abolition.

Bylines:Sports Illustrated, The Nation, The Appeal

Specialty:Jouralism

Bylines:Prism Reports, Truth Out,KnockLA

Specialty:Essays and poetry about death row in California, the abolition movement, and a wrongful conviction that has kept me incarcerated on California Death Row since 1999.

Bylines:Filter, San Francisco Bay View, Knock LA

Specialty: Personal essays on Florida prison experiences and conditions, as well as advocacy for incarcerated Muslims and better support and advocacy for Florida’s felony murder rule.

Bylines:Scalawag Magazine, Prism, Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:Writes about the trauma of incarceration.

Bylines:Secrets From A Prison Cell, Locked In and Locked Out, Filter Magazine

Specialty:Negative and positive essays surrounding the California prison system and the treatment of transgender people in incarceration, as well as music lyrics and poems.

Bylines:Audostraddle, Apogee Journal, Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:A F2M transgender and political prisoner, and captive of prolonged solitary confinement, writing about Texas prison conditions.

Bylines:San Francisco Bayview, Southern Cultures, Solitary Watch

Specialty:A Georgia-based writer specializing in op-eds, personal essays and poetry on the experiences of citizens in and out of the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Bylines:The Philadelphia Inquirer, Parents Magazine, the Marshall Project

Specialty:Theology, history, prisoner rights, prison conditions, policing, surveillance and abolitionism.

Bylines:Nursing Clio, The Appeal, Scalawag

Specialty:Personal essays on Virginia prison conditions, motherhood, and sustaining family ties across prison walls.

Bylines:Marshall Project, Scalawag, Prison Journalism Project

Specialty:Gonzo journalism, essays, short stories and poems.

Bylines:Writing Class Radio, Marshall Project, Mangoprism

Specialty:Personal essays and poetry geared around gender specific needs of incarcerated women, raw experiences with addiction, and the familial cycle of generational crime from all angles

Bylines:Scalawag Magazine, The Crime Report, winner of the PEN America Fielding A. Dawson Prize

Specialty:Cultural storytelling, poetry and personal essays about struggle and perseverance. A focus on the humanistic aspects of the carceral experience.

Bylines:Harper’s Bazaar, Business Insider, the Marshall Project

Specialty:Author and prison reform advocate who utilizes lived experiences of transformation, despite the conditions of confinement, and advocates for ending life without the possibility of parole.

Bylines:Elle Magazine, Knock LA, Marshall Project

Specialty:Neo-existential fiction, poetry, and essays about state-raised individuals overcoming the American prison system

Bylines:PEN America, Peripheries Journal, Columbia University Exchange

Specialty:Foster-care-to-prison pipeline, prison industrial complex abolition, 3-strikes, 13th amendment, prison conditions, intergenerational incarceration, criminal legal system transformation, and the socioeconomic impact of mass incarceration.

Bylines:Slate, The Progressive, Prism

Specialty:Spoken word, articles on mental illness in Michigan Department of Corrections, stories on wrongful convictions/exonerations and advocacy writing on incarcerated individuals rehabilitation

Bylines:Voice of Detroit, The Gangster Report, University of Michigan PCAP News

Specialty:Writing about social justice, addiction, mental health, the environment, and other issues that are important to changing the world. See clips on Muckrack.

Bylines:Metro Philadelphia, Huffington Post, Poynter Institute