Interstitial Media
Alison Turner
Vermillion, South Dakota
Writer, editor, oral historian, and scholar, Alison facilitates creative writing groups in shelters and prisons and is a Reader/Advisor/Editor with The GOAT POL, a community-writing project that supports disenfranchised writers around the world. She is the Curator of the South Dakota Oral History Center and thinks a lot about archives and creativity. She waits all summer for fall.
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It’s in the Title
In the summer of 2023, several men on death row in Mississippi performed "Death of a Salesman," facilitated by outside artists Alison Turner and Julie Rada. This production made visible to prison staff, other incarcerated people, and a small public audience, that these men are creative, collaborative, and committed to finding beauty and joy in an environment designed to destroy expression and life.