Lawson Strickland has been incarcerated for 32 years. He works as a prison journalist with the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s criminal justice journal, The Angolite. His work has appeared in Death Watch: A Death Penalty Anthology, Frontiers of Justice, Vol. II., Big News, The Lens, and The Law. For the PEN Prison Writing Awards, he earned Second Place in Fiction in 2016, and First Place in 2023 and 2024.