Emily Abendroth is a writer, artist, and anti-prison activist residing in Philadelphia. Much of her creative work attempts to investigate state regimes of force and power, as well as individual and collective resistance strategies. Her poetry is often published in limited-edition, handcrafted chapbooks by small and micropresses such as Albion Books, Belladonna*, Horse Less Press, Little Red Leaves, and Zumbar. Her poetry book ]Exclosures[ is available from Ahsahta Press, and The Instead, a book-length collaborative conversation with fiction writer Miranda Mellis, was published this year by Carville Annex Press. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She was named a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow in 2012 and a Pew Fellow in Poetry in 2013. She is the co-founder of Address This!, a grassroots educational project that offers social-justice focused correspondence courses to individuals incarcerated throughout the state of Pennsylvania. She regularly teaches literature, critical theory, the contemporary essay, 20th-century poetics, and creative writing to undergraduates and students of all ages.