Deborah Tobola

DEBORAH TOBOLA is a poet, playwright and co-author of a children’s book. Her work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards and a Children’s Choice Book Award. Tobola began teaching creative writing in California prisons in 1992. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Poetic Justice Project, the country's first theatre company for formerly incarcerated people.