Published writing in 2022:
Working in Prison Fields Didn’t “Correct” Me, It Revealed the System’s Brutality, Published by Truthout on August 15th, 2022 — a 2022 winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
Essay contribution to Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing, Published in 2022
Forbidden Knowledge, Published by PEN America on September 15th, 2022 and a contribution to Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement in 2023 by University of Georgia Press
Published writing in 2023:
Harmful Healthcare, Published by Syracuse University in Mend Journal in 2023
Free Our Mamas contribution, Published by Muchacha Fanzine in summer 2023
Let’s Abolish Systems That Criminalize and Punish Survivors of Abuse, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on January 20th, 2023
Criminalized Survivors Face Judgement and Abuse From Their Own Defense Attorneys, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on June 19th, 2023
‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison, Published by Prism on July 12th, 2023
Texas Prisons are Unbearably Hot. I Live In One, Published by Dallas Morning News on July 22nd, 2023
Facing the Climate Crisis from a Texas Prison Cell, Published by the Appeal on July 28th, 2023
My Neighbors in Solitary, Published by Slate on August 2nd, 2023
Book Review: ABOLITION. FEMINISM. NOW., Published by Study and Struggle in fall of 2023
“Code words to say what can’t be said”: Kwaneta Harris and James Hannaham on Queerness and the Silencing of the Incarcerated, Published by LitHub on September 5th, 2023
Summer Heat Is Killing Incarcerated People — It’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Published with Leigh Goodmark by Truthout on September 12th, 2023
In Here, in Prison, Rats are Treated as Children, Published by Mangoprism on September 22nd, 2023
Censoring Women’s Health, Published by Inquest on October 19th, 2023
In solitary confinement, banned books are a lifeline, Published by the Boston Globe and The Emancipator on October 23rd, 2023 - a 2024 winner of an Edward R. Murrow Award (recognized with The Emancipator’s 2023 Prison Banned Books Week Series)
Inside Voices, Published by Lux Magazine for its Fall 2023 issue
What 24 Hours Looks Like in Three Prisons, Published by Slate on December 14th, 2023
Young Women in Prison Don’t Have Information on Sex Ed, Reproductive Health, Published by Teen Vogue on December 15th, 2023
Published writing in 2024:
Stillness Is My Nemesis, Published by Solitary Watch on March 21st, 2024
It Never Warms Up: Surviving Extreme Cold in Texas Prisons, Published by Prism on April 1st, 2024
Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard, Published by the Austin Chronicle on March 29th, 2024
Boiling on the Inside, Published by Scalawag Magazine on April 11th, 2024
Mamas Gonna Mama, No Matter Where they At, Published by The Appeal on May 8th, 2024
The Hell Inside Hell, Published by Scalawag Magazine on May 30th, 2024
I Fought for Air Conditioning in Solitary Confinement — Now I Have to Do It Again, Published by the Austin Chronicle on June 14th, 2024
The Wages of Inequality — Behind Bars, Published by Texas Observer on July 18th, 2024
‘True Crime’ Shows Exploit and Lie About Women Like Me, Published by The Appeal on July 24th, 2024
Cooked in Custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons, Published by Prism on September 11th, 2024
Many Women Can Get Around Abortion Bans. Not Some of Us. Published by Slate on September 18th, 2024
Contributed to They wrote a book while locked in solitary confinement. Texas won’t let them read it, Published by The Guardian on October 11th, 2024
‘We the People’ Includes We the Incarcerated, Published by Prison Journalism Project and Reckon on October 16th, 2024
What Incarcerated People Want Voters to Remember, Published by The Appeal on November 4th, 2024
Menopause in a Prison Cell, October 2023 print issue of In These Times Magazine, published digitally November 12th, 2024
Prison is Not Menopause Friendly: Be Prepared to Self Advocate, Fall 2024 print and digital issue of Prison Health News (pg. 10)
Invisible Chains: One Woman’s Transition Out of Solitary Confinement in a Texas Prison, Published by Solitary Watch on December 19th, 2024
Published writing in 2025:
Inside Texas Prisons, Women Smuggle Eyeshadow — and Risk Solitary — to ‘Feel Human,’ Published by The Barbed Wire on January 29th, 2025
23:59, Published by Solitary Watch on February 4th, 2025
They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month, Published by Open Campus on February 27th, 2025
At My Texas Prison, Solitary Confinement All But Guarantees Sexual Exploitation by Guards, Published by the Marshall Project on March 10th, 2025
The Echo of Isolation: The Women of Solitary Confinement in America, Past and Present, Published by Solitary Watch on March 12th, 2025
You’ve Come to the Right Person — Kwaneta’s Story, Published by This American Life on March 16th, 2025
I’m An Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Healthcare in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump, Published by Rolling Stone on March 21th, 2025
The Power of the Pen: How Writing Saved My Life, Published by the Mellon Foundation on March 25th, 2025
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: A Tale of Two Pardons, Published by Spectre Journal on April 11th, 2025
In Texas Prison, My Black Hair Brings a Sense of Identity—and Punishment, Published by Cosmopolitan on April 23rd, 2025
The Prison System Chose My Religion For Me, Published by Sojourners on April 23rd, 2025
Witnessing the Solitary-to-Cemetery Pipeline, Published by Solitary Watch on April 25th, 2025
‘Mama’s in the Hole’: How Solitary Confinement Tries to Break Family Bonds, Published by Ms. Magazine on May 9th, 2025
I Could Have Been George Floyd, Published by Prison Journalism Project on May 22nd, 2025
Interview with Kwaneta Harris, Published by Apogee Journal on June 24th, 2025
Beyond the Rainbow: Remembering Our Most Forgotten, Published by Solitary Watch on June 26th, 2025
Letter to My Teenage Self: You Will Be Saved by the Power of Your Words, Published by Narratively on June 27th, 2025
What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of July?, Published by The Marshall Project on July 4th, 2025
From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars, Published by Film Comment on July 7th, 2025
Love Behind Bars: The Criminalization of LGBTQ+ Intimacy in Texas, Published by Real Hood Square on July 12th, 2025
Chemical Chains, Published by TriQuarterly on July 13th, 2025
Podcast Interviews:
Peri-Tales - Season 1, Episode 6, Published October 23rd, 2024
Everyday Injustice: Story of Kwaneta Harris, Fighting for Her Voice in Texas Prison, Published March 24th, 2025
Webinars:
Censored by Prisons, Censored by TedX*, Streamed December 3rd, 2024 (Haymarket Books)
Mothering Behind Bars - Voices of Incarcerated Mothers in Reflection of Mother’s Day, Streamed May 31, 2025 (Incarcerated Womxn’s Clemency & Support Project)
Also featured in:
“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished”, by Justine van der Leun for Dissent Magazine
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, by Leigh Goodmark for University of California Press
A Texas Prison Guard Punishes a Woman for Talking About Abortion, by Victoria Law for The Nation
Solitary confinement is still widespread in US prisons and jails, by Jeremy Young for Al Jazeera
Prison Banned Books Week Highlights Censorship Behind Bars, by Democracy Now!
Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, by Victoria Law for Haymarket Books (excerpted in Solitary Watch)
Uhuru Rowe discussing criminalized survivors, by Conscious Prisoner (Patreon)
In Texas Prisons, Digital Mail Further Isolates Those in Solitary Confinement, by Sarah Vogel for Solitary Watch
Winter in America (Again poetry anthology, with lead editors Katie Sarah Zale and Paul E. Nelson
Unlocking Reproductive Healthcare in Texas Women’s Jails and Prisons, by Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance and Texas Civil Rights Project
Preface - Best Practices in Defending Women and Gender Minorities, by Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement, by Christopher William Blackwell and Deborah Zalesne with Dr. Terry Kupers and Kwaneta Harris for Pluto Press [September 2025, available for pre-order]