Katy Ryan

Katy Ryan is the Eberly Family Professor of Outstanding Teaching in West Virginia University’s Department of English. In 2004 she founded the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP), a nonprofit that mails free books to people imprisoned in six states, creates prison book clubs, and raises college tuition for incarcerated students. She is also the Founding Director of the WVU Higher Education in Prison Initiative. She is coeditor of This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project.