Derek R. Trumbo Sr.

Derek R. Trumbo Sr., a multiple-time PEN Prison Writing Award winner, is an essayist, playwright and author whose writing has been featured in The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books, January 2022), Vera Institute of Justice’s the “Human Toll of Jail” project and Tacenda Literary Magazine. His plans have won or placed top three at the Kentucky Theatre Association Roots of the Bluegrass New Plays Festival three years running. A Madeline L’Engle/Rahman Mentorship Award prize winning essayist, Derek mentors, instructs and facilitates writing circles with his fellow inmates to create tales which highlight the human struggle and adversity of this gift we call life.