Sophia Ramirez is a fellow with the Prison and Justice Writing Program at PEN America. She recently graduated from Wilton High School in Connecticut and will attend Yale University next fall. Passionate about writing and eager to support others in their own storytelling, she joined the Prison Creative Arts Project as a senior, reviewing the submitted poetry, fiction, and essays of incarcerated people. She is now taking a gap year to further explore and contribute to the ongoing conversation about criminal justice reform, art, and where those intersect. In her free time, she loves playing board games with her family, learning the harmonica, and writing short stories.
Sophia Ramirez
Fellow, Prison and Justice Writing
Articles by Sophia Ramirez
Thursday July 21
Introducing I am climbing the stairs that I create with these words all the way to the top: A NaPoWriMo Zine
PEN America’s Sophia Ramirez introduces our newest Prison Writing poetry zine, “I am climbing the stairs that I create with these words all the way to the top,” for NaPoWriMo.
Wednesday June 15
Benevolent Terror: Dorothy E. Roberts on Reimagining the Child Welfare System
Sophia Ramirez reviews Dorothy E. Roberts’ new book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022).
Thursday April 21
Necessary Unlearning: On Derecka Purnell’s ‘Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom’
Prison and Justice Writing Postgraduate Sophia Ramirez Fellow reviews Derecka Purnell’s “Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.”
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Tuesday February 15