Robert Taliaferro is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University (Minnesota). He is an established artist and currently is a columnist for the Chicago-based newspaper News and Letters. Taliaferro was the editor of The Prison Mirror from 1985-1989, during which time the publication won various community and national journalism honours, including the 1985, 1986, and 1988 Best Newspaper awards, and the 1987 Charles C. Clayton Award from the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University. His work has also been published in several anthologies and collections. He is currently in his nineteenth-year of a life sentence and can be reached at: 7108-WI, CCAlPCF, P.O. Box 500, DB-205, Appleton, MN 56208-0500, U.S.A.
