Emmett Tatter
Contributor
Emmett Tatter is a writer, prison reform advocate, and certified yoga teacher based in Saint Augustine, Florida. He served eight and a half years of a ten-year sentence in the Florida Department of Corrections and lectures on mental health, addiction, and criminal justice at colleges including Flagler College and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His memoir COUNT TIME was named first runner-up for the 2026 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Nonfiction, and it’s represented by Kristen Terrette at Martin-Newens Literary Management. It carries endorsements from Emmy-winning investigative journalist Beth Shelburne (co-producer of the Oscar-nominated HBO documentary The Alabama Solution), New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford, Dr. Baz Dreisinger (founder and executive director of Incarceration Nations Network), former Chief Judge Pamela L. North, former CNN editor John DeDakis, international yoga teacher Jared McCann (2013 World Asana Champion), and others. He’s published thirteen articles in CounterPunch and hosts the podcast COUNT TIME with Emmett Tatter. Follow and subscribe to his Substack at emmetttatter.substack.com, where you can also find his podcast.
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