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Catherine LaFleur

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Catherine LaFleur is the inaugural winner of PEN America’s Belle Chevigny Award for Women’s Prison Writing and the 2023–24 Luis Angel Hernandez Poet Laureate for O Miami. She teaches with Exchange for Change, a nonprofit bringing writing classes to incarcerated people in Florida. Her poetry appears in the forthcoming Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration. You can contact her through Empowerment Avenue.

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