Keeonna Harris is a writer, storyteller, mother of five, prison abolitionist, activist, and academic, born and raised in Watts and South-Central Los Angeles. She has received several honors, including a 2018–2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, a 2021 Tin House Summer Residency, a 2023 Baldwin Center for the Arts Residency, and a 2023 Hedgebrook Writer Fellowship as the 2023 Edith Wharton Resident. She is currently a 2024 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. Keeonna is developing the “Borderland Project,” a mental health and community support system for women forced to navigate carceral institutions to maintain connections with incarcerated persons. She lives in Seattle.