Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, lawyer, and prison reform advocate. A MacArthur fellow, he is the author of the collection Felon: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company), addressing the effects of incarceration and life post-incarceration. Betts is also the founder and executive director of Freedom Reads, a not-for-profit transforming access to literature in prisons by installing Freedom Libraries across the country. He will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to lead a conversation with Salvadorean-born Alexandra Lytton Regalado, author of Relinquenda (Beacon Press) and co-director of Editorial Kalina, as part of the Fair’s National Poetry Series program.