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ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 36.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} span.s1 {font: 12.0px Arial} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} ALL DAY is a story of my journey finding love and purpose in an unexpected, dark place. Like most New York City transplants, I came with a dream of doing something extraordinary-becoming a supermodel. I did the Paris-New York-Milan couture romp, not achieving supermodel status, but I managed to walk the runway for some of the fashion industry's best designers.
About the Author
LIZA JESSIE PETERSON is author of ALL DAY: A YEAR OF LOVE AND SURVIVAL TEACHING INCARCERATED KIDS AT RIKERS ISLAND.
Liza has worked with incarcerated youth-both male and female-in various capacities for eighteen years as a teaching artist, poet-in-residence, NYC Board of Education full-time GED teacher, re-entry specialist, outreach coordinator, and most recently as a program counselor with the NYC Department of Corrections. She appeared on two seasons of HBO's groundbreaking Def Poetry and was featured in Ava Duvernay's critically acclaimed film The 13th. Her one-woman stage play, The Peculiar Patriot, toured in more than thirty-five penitentiaries across the country and the full production is scheduled to premiere in New York in Fall 2017. Liza is currently a freelance writer and actress living in Brooklyn.
