Win Bassett

Win Bassett’s essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Guernica. His stories and poems have been published or are forthcoming in Pank, Image, Ruminate, and Trop. He’s a former assistant district attorney and serves on the PEN Prison Writing Program Fiction Committee. He’s from southwestern Virginia and studies at Yale Divinity School.

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These Signs Shall Follow Them

By Win Bassett March 13, 2014

The Signs Followers of southern Appalachia prefer not to be called “snake-handlers."

Commentary Conflict Justice

Pens in the Pen

By Win Bassett January 23, 2014

A former prosecutor reflects on wrongful convictions, Damien Echols's memoir, and the importance of prison arts programs.

Commentary Justice

Prison Scratchings

By Win Bassett November 22, 2013

A former assistant district attorney reflects on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer and the intimacy of the handwritten word.