R. Keppler
R. Keppler is a journalist whose husband has been incarcerated for nearly three decades in California. She has been an advocate for over 10 years, including as chair of Inmate Family Councils and as a member of several grassroots justice reform groups. Her poetry was an outgrowth of noncontact visits at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU). She has asked that her real name be withheld to mitigate any potential backlash against her husband.
