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Featured Writers & Publications from
Our Network

Shamah ShaRize

ShaRize is the artistic director of Time Out of Joint and a Herstory Beyond Bars Fellow.

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Alyssa

Alyssa joined the Herstory Network in the summer of 2025, as a Facilitator in Training to enable her to work with a group of young people participating in Judge Camacho's ERIN Court as they recover from having been trafficked.

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Amber Darkins

Amber Darkins is a junior fellow in our national Beyond Bars Fellowship.

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David J. Thomas

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David J. Thomas is a Herstory Beyond Bars Fellow. Barbwire Gun Towers and Butterfly Wings is his forthcoming collection of poems.

Graham Reside

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Graham Reside is a Herstory Beyond Bars Fellow.

I Don't Really Know Where to Start

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This is a collection of short memoirs about incarceration written by people in Denver camps and shelters.

Judge Fernando Camacho

The Honorable Fernando Camacho is a Judge of the New York State Court of Claims and Acting Supreme Court Justice. He partners with Herstory Writers Network to provide empathy-based memoir-writing workshops to court-involved youth. 

Judge Camacho

This website was launched as part of "Writing Beyond the Prison: Reimagining the Carceral Ecosystem with Incarcerated Authors," a public humanities collaboration with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and the United Black Families Scholarship Foundation, supported by a Sustaining Public Engagement Grant awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has enjoyed funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities New York with support from the Mellon Foundation, Flagstar Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

We invite you to explore new ways of listening for narrative shape, to prepare you for moving from engaging groups from oral imaging to writing opening moments and scenes.

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