Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, published by Spiegel & Grau and adapted by Jenji Kohan into an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning original series for Netflix. Piper works with Spitfire Strategies as a communications consultant with nonprofits, philanthropies, and other organizations working in the public interest, and also serves on the board of the Women’s Prison Association.
Piper Kerman
Articles by Piper Kerman
Monday April 12
Orange is the New Black
Chapter One Are You Gonna Go My Way? International baggage claim in the Brussels airport was large and airy, with multiple carousels circling endlessly. I scurried from one to another, desperately trying to find my black suitcase. Because it was stuffed with drug money, I was more concerned than one might normally be about lost