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Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison from Spiegel & Grau. The book was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning original series for Netflix. Piper teaches writing to incarcerated people and is at work on a second book. She serves on the board of directors of the Women’s Prison Association and the Bay Area Book Festival, and the advisory boards of the PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowship, InsideOUT Writers, Healing Broken Circles, JustLeadershipUSA and History Studio.
10th Anniversary Festival
Moderator - Memoir and Imagination: Where Truth and Creativity Collide