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Jean Trounstine

Jean Trounstine, an activist, writer and professor at Middlesex Community College, worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for ten years where she directed eight plays with inmates. Her highly-praised book about that work, SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS: THE POWER OF DRAMA IN A WOMEN'S PRISON, has been featured on NPR, The Connection, and in numerous print publications here and abroad. In addition, she has spoken around the world on women in prison, co-founded the women’s branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an award-winning alternative sentencing program featured in The New York Times and on The Today Show, and co-authored two books about the program. She published a book of poetry, ALMOST HOME FREE, and co-edited the New England best-seller, WHY I'M STILL MARRIED: WOMEN WRITE THEIR HEARTS OUT ON LOVE, LOSS, SEX, AND WHO DOES THE DISHES. Her essay, "Meeting Karter" in Solstice is from her book-in-progress, BOY WITH A KNIFE.

• Meeting Karter, 06 Jul 2010 in Summer 2010