Kwaneta Harris

Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner and expat, now an incarcerated journalist, contributing writer at Solitary Watch, and Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow. In her writing she illuminates how the experience of being incarcerated in the largest state prison in Texas is vastly different for women in ways that directly map onto a culture rooted in misogyny. Her stories expose how the intersection of gender, race, and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence. Harris’ writings have appeared in a wide range of publications including Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, The Marshall Project, Scalawag, Prism, The Appeal and Teen Vogue, among others.