Connie Banta is a social activist serving on the APBP Board of Directors, book artist, poet, and retired therapist living in Morgantown, WV. Kristin DeVault-Juelfs is a social worker, therapist, and former APBP work-study student and APBP volunteer from West Virginia. Destinee Harper is a researcher and activist for education access in prison. Katy Ryan is a literature professor and founder of APBP. Ellen Skirvin is a teacher, fiction writer, and dedicated APBP volunteer.
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Preface Introduction Editorial Statement 1. Book Requests 2. Access and Restrictions 3. Letters as Windows 4. Circles, Classes, Conversations 5. Weaving Webs Where Is the Honey? Afterword Works Cited Resource List Acknowledgements
"A beautiful book that really stands alone in literature exploring mass incarceration, the experience of incarceration, and the work of reform. As the editors note, this isn't really a book about any of those things in a traditional sense, even as it clearly is a book about all of them. Rather, the book is most clearly about the literary and intellectual lives of people incarcerated and the modest but urgent work of grassroots book projects." -Judah Schept, author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Kentucky