Doran Larson is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Hamilton College. Since 2006 he has led The Attica Writer's Workshop (AWW), inside Attica Correctional Facility. He is the founder of the Attica-Genesee Teaching Project, which began delivering college-credit courses inside Attica in January 2011. He is now working to create a no-tuition college-in-prison model that can be reproduced across New York State and the nation at no cost to taxpayers. Larson's essays on prison writing, prison teaching, and related issues have appeared in Salmagundi, College Literature, English Language Notes, Radical Teacher, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the editor of a forthcoming special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, titled "The Beautiful Prison," in which prison writers and academics imagine what the American prison would look like if transformed into a truly constructive institution. Larson is currently editing a collection of essays about the prison by American prisoners, titled Fourth City: The Prison in America. At Hamilton College Doran Larson teaches courses on American and global prison writing.

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