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“Just as we wouldn’t be aware of certain heinous crimes resulting from police and vigilante murders if there were no recordings of them, we cannot turn away from the voices here, as they document this moment and time, both in their acceptance and their denial of the virus, their theories about its sources, their lightheartedness and seriousness, their outcry and their pain.”

– Edwidge Danticat, from the Foreword of Hear Us

This unique anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and artwork from incarcerated writers, family members, and Department of Correction staff, describes how the pandemic and George Floyd’s murder have impacted the authors’ lives.

A woman from Alaska fears she has become merely a number, that she will be lost in a stack of paperwork. A Warden in Arizona wonders about what more he can do for his students. On death-row in San Quentin, an inmate memorializes his fellow friends who have died as a result of COVID-19. A man thanks God for Taylor Swift playing in his headphones as it drowns out the sounds of prison. A sister reading COVID-19 obituaries doubts anyone will care that her brother died of the same virus while he was incarcerated in Florida.

In vivid detail, Hear Us, shows how inequity and injustice are played out in the era of mass incarceration. With a foreword by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat (Everything Inside, 2019 Penguin Random House), this exceptional cross-section of more than fifty writers elevates the voices of those too often silenced behind the barbed wire. We are honored to publish the work of these individuals.