This Book is Free and Yours to Keep
Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
West Virginia University Press
A scrapbook-esque overview of the Appalachian Prison Book Project—a nonprofit dedicated to providing books to incarcerated people in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland—via essays, letters, artwork, and creative writing sent by incarcerated people.
Connie Banta is a retired English and French teacher, and APBP volunteer. Destinee Harper is the APBP Assistant Education Coordinator and the Assistant Program Coordinator for the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative. Kristin DeVault-Juelfs is currently a therapist working with youth at the Wood Co. Youth Reporting Center. Katy Ryan is the founder of the Appalachian Prison Book Project and a Professor of English at West Virginia University. She co-founded the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative. Ellen Skirvin teaches and serves as the Assistant Director to the Creative Writing program at Penn State University.
