Piper Kerman: I remember when I was incarcerated and living in B dorm, I had a bunkie, my bunkmate, whose name was Natalie, she’s Natalie in the book, and when things were really, really crazy in B dorm, Natalie had been incarcerated was a while, she was actually close to going home, she was an older woman, very well-respected there every now and then things would sort of be going crazy in B dorm, she would turn to me and she would say, “Bunkie, go home and write a book,” and I would say “oh ha ha ha Natalie,” but I went home in 2005 and I was encouraged by many people to write about the experience and I was so of skeptical about that, I had never written anything for publication before, but of course I am the product of a good liberal arts education, like Dickinson.
The Dickinsonian: What was the process that you went through to write the memoir and did you know that you wanted to write one right away? Was it something that you thought about a lot or was it more of a spur of the moment decision to start writing? She discusses what she thinks students should understand about the humanity of the incarcerated, and her take on identity and activism.
The Dickinsonian sat down with Poitras Gleim recipient Piper Kerman to speak about her memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison, and its spin-off Netflix series.
Rachael Franchini ’19, Co-Editor-in-Chief
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