Susan Nagelsen is Director of the Writing Program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, where she has taught for twenty-five years. She is an essayist and a fiction writer as well as the author of two writing manuals. She teaches first-year courses as well as advanced essay writing courses such as the art of the essay and content based writing. She also teaches in the Criminal Justice program where her course focuses on teaching students about prison from the point of view of prisoners. Her most recent published fiction can be found in the fall 2005 edition of the Henniker Review, Tacenda, Bleakhouse Review and in the Journal of Prisoners on Prison Volume 14(2), an issue addressing aging in prison. She is a frequent contributor to the JPP and is currently Associate Editor. She is also the editor of an anthology of work by incarcerated writers entitled Exiled Voices, Portals of Discovery (New England College Press, 2008). The book features 13 incarcerated writers with an introduction to each written by Nagelsen and is being used as a textbook in courses focusing on criminal justice issues.
Charles Huckelbury
Charles Huckelbury was sentenced to life imprisonment – 35 year minimum – at the age of 27 and has spent the last 28 years in prison. Awarded second place in Prison Life’s fiction contest in 1995, he won the PEN American Center first prize for fiction in 2001. A regular contributor to the JPP since 1997, Charles joined the Editorial Board in 2001 and is now an Associate Editor. He was one of four featured writers in Shawn Thompson’s Letters From Prison (Harper Collins, 2001). His new book of poetry, Tales From the Purple Penguin (BleakHouse Publishers, 2008) has received rave reviews from students and academics.
