Aliens at the Border: the Writing Workshop, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

by Hettie Jones (Editor)

" A few years ago, the Bedford Hills Workshop gave us More in than out with this second collection, Hettie Jones' group sings so tellingly, so irresistibly that we find the walls dissolving. These writers feel themselves to be aliens at the border. But if tis candor and courage, this hard-won compassion -- be alien, what is left faro the rest of us?

66 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Hettie Jones (born 1934 as Hettie Cohen) is best known as the first wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself.

While known for her poetry, she has received acclaim for her memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones (published 1990 by Grove Press).

Jones held various clerical jobs at Partisan Review and started the literary magazine Yugen with her husband. Jones is currently on the faculty in the graduate program in creative writing at The New School in New York City. From 1989-2002 she ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills, which included inmate Judy Clark as a student, and which published a nationally distributed collection, Aliens At The Border. Jones is a former chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee and is currently a member of PEN's Advisory Council.

(from Wikipedia)