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Author: Lawson Strickland, winner of the PEN Prison Writing Award for Fiction, as interviewed by Nick Chrastil, The Lens

‘Resentment is not inevitable’

December 26, 2024 Updated December 26, 2024

"I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison."

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