Responding to the immediate need for cohesive research efforts focused on a prion disease that is spreading across Minnesota through the formation of an innovative and multidisciplinary research center.
This project will create a new, ongoing program that would publish the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers. The books published by the micro-press would allow audiences to see these writers first not as criminals but as innovative, gifted artists with a valuable perspective to add to the discourse.