Maya Schenwar

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Maya Schenwar is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news website. She has written about the prison-industrial complex for TruthoutThe New York Times, The Guardian, The New Jersey Star-Ledger, Ms. Magazine, Prison Legal News, and others. She is the recipient of a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Chi Award and a Lannan Residency Fellowship, both for her writing on prisons. Previous to her work at Truthout, Maya was Contributing Editor at _Punk Planet_magazine and served as media coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2019*

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