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EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Susan Nagelsen is the director of the writing program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. Her book, Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery, is a collection of writings by women and men in prisons across the United States, gathered during research and fieldwork. The book is used in writing curricula in a number of colleges and universities. She has also published short stories, most recently with BleakHouse Press, one of which won an award in 2009 for the best collaborative fiction. Susan has presented papers at international conferences on criminal justice issues and is the co- author of two writing handbooks now used at New England College.
Charles Huckelbury served 38 consecutive years in maximum-security prisons until he was paroled in 2012. During his incarceration, he taught English literature and writing for a community college and was a contributing writer for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. He has received four PEN awards for fiction and nonfiction and is the author of two books of poetry, Tales from the Purple Penguin and Distant Thunder, both published by BleakHouse Press. He writes a monthly newsletter for the Prisons Foundation in Washington (D.C.).