Seraphina Halpern is a Summer 2021 Prison and Justice Writing intern. Halpern is a rising second-year student at The University of Chicago, where she is prospectively double majoring in anthropology and creative writing. She creates for UChicago’s Fire Escape Films production company and Catcher in The Rhyme spoken word collective. She dreams of a post-pandemic world where, among many other things, she gets to go camping on the weekends with her friends. In her hometown of Philadelphia, she led Sister Circle, an intersectional feminism initiative at her high school, while facilitating meetings for Poetry Club and performing onstage in theater productions and a jazz band. Her interest in the capacity of art to power personal and social transformation was born there and has only grown since.
Seraphina Halpern
Intern, Prison and Justice Writing
Articles by Seraphina Halpern
The PEN Ten: An Interview with the 2021-2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellows
“You must be willing to get your pen dirty. Write with passion. Befriend an incarcerated person, learn how society formed that person, feel the connection you share with that person.”