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Caits Meissner

Caits Meissner
Caits Meissner is PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program director. From 2012–2014, Meissner served over 500 women worldwide in an original intensive online writing course that matured into live programming, including a reading series, courses for incarcerated youth and adult women, and state-sponsored cultural exchange in Malaysia. Meissner is the author of the poetry collection Let It Die Hungry. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, where she was awarded The Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize in Creative Writing, an Educational Enrichment Award, and The Teacher-Writer Award.


What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand

Caits Meissner on Why "Prison Writer" Is a Limiting Label
September 11, 2019  By Caits Meissner
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