prison writing

Prison writing is literature produced by incarcerated people, encompassing memoirs, poetry, letters, essays, and fiction that document the experience of imprisonment.

The genre has a long history, from the Apostle Paul's epistles to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Such writing often addresses themes of confinement, injustice, survival, and transformation.

Her prison writing gained national attention after excerpts appeared in a literary magazine.