PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II has been incarcerated for 22 years. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists, his writing has been published in Slate, Logic(s) and the North Carolina Law Review, among others. His debut poetry collection LIFE is out now with Bleakhouse Publishing.
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