Moira Marquis

Moira Marquis is the Freewrite project senior manager in the prison and justice writing department at PEN America. Marquis has many years of experience teaching writing in both secondary and higher education, as well as leading Asheville Prison Books, and founding Saxapahaw Prison Books. She has a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction | Moira Marquis on the Importance of Magical Thinking For the Incarcerated
LitHub, December 7, 2023