Dalton Harrison

Dalton Harrison is a dyslexic transgender man, poet, and storyteller whose work is shaped by lived experience of the criminal justice system. He holds a BA and MSc in Criminal Justice and Criminology from the University of Leeds. His poetry has been adapted for art, theatre, music, radio, and contemporary dance, and academia . He has performed at venues and festivals including Howard Assembly rooms, City Varieties, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds Lieder Festival, Leeds Literature Festival and BBC Contains Strong Language. He has collaborated internationally and worked as a theatre and television consultant. He has been published in numerous anthologies, blogs and academic articles. The Boy Behind the Wall is his first book, written as a poetic memoir. His latest book, A Prison Within a Prison: An Evocative Autoethnographic Approach to Being A Transgender Man in a Women's Prison in England, combines academic and creative writing with poetry and storytelling.