Student Work

MPWW students frequently publish poems, stories, essays, and op-eds in venues of local and national reach. We do not share these publications, per Department of Corrections policy, unless they have been previously published and we have explicit permission from the writer to do so.

We're proud to work with Zeke Caligiuri, whose magnificent memoir, This Is Where I Am, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2016. The book was a finalist for the 2017 Minnesota Book Award. You can purchase the book from UMN Press, Indiebound, or your local independent book store.

Many MPWW students have been recognized in the PEN Prison Writing Contest hosted by the PEN America Center. You can read a selection of those pieces below:

• The Glitter Squirrel in Me by Elizabeth (2018)
• Conflagration by Will (2018)
• On a Railroad (Soo-Line) by Mark (2018)
• The Golden Veneer by Esau (2018)
• Univision by Elizabeth (2018)
• Rusted by Antonio (2018)
• Prison Proposal, Prison Wedding by Brian (2018)
• 33 Days by Matthew (2017)
• 600 Days of Silence by Robert (2017)
• Double Secret Probation: The Two-Week Paper Blog by Elizabeth (2017)
• This Is Where by Karol (2017)
• A Ladybug's Visit by C. Fausto (2016)
• Bombs by Zeke (2016)
• Dear Voyage by Brian (2015)

• The Awful Thing I Saw in Prison That Stunned Me Into Silence by Aaron (The Marshall Project)