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Authors: Maggie Nelson

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The Innocence Project,
www.innocenceproject.org

The Justice Project,
www.justiceproject.org

Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights,
http://www.worldcoalition.org/Murder-Victims-Families-for-Human-Rights-MVFHR.html

Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation,
www.mvfr.org

360 Degrees: Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System,
www.360degrees.org

Acknowledgments

Thank you
PJ Mark, Liz Stein, Maris Kreizman, Amra Brooks, Brian Blanchfield, Matthew Sharpe, Suzanne Snider, Wayne Koestenbaum, Janet Sarbanes, Mady Schutzman, Eileen Myles, Sally Baumer, Lauren Sanders, Richard Nash, Cort Day, Kate Egan, Jordana Rosenberg, Lily Mazzarella, Gretchen Hildebran, Judy Kann, the Michigan State Police—especially Detective-Sergeants Eric Schroeder, Denise Powell, Patrick “PJ” Moore, James Bundshuh, and Kenneth Rochell—Deputy Chief Assistant Prosecutor Steven Hiller, Victim/Witness Advocate LeAnn Kaiser, Maureen Maher, Chris Young, and Gail Zimmerman of CBS News, Dan and Lynne Mixer, Dr. Dan Mixer, Jill Johnson, Kristi Gilbert, Phil Weitzman, Craig Tracy, Kat Hartman, Barbara Nelson, and Emily Jane Nelson. This book would not have been possible without their intelligence, generosity, and humanity.

MAGGIE NELSON is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of four other books of nonfiction:
The Argonauts
(2015);
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
(2011; named a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year),
Bluets
(2009), and
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
(2007). She is also the author of several books of poetry, including
Something Bright, Then Holes
(2007) and
Jane: A Murder
(2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). She has been the recipient of a 2013 Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2007 Arts Writers grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Since 2005 she has taught on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Los Angeles.

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