Jill McDonough, UMass Boston
Jill McDonough, UMass Boston MFA Program in Creative Writing, English Department jill.mcdonough@umb.edu jill@jillmcdonough.com I worked with Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years before I got a tenure-track job at UMass Boston and they wanted me to quit working with BU. I ran a Prison Poetry Club and annual contest/reading at MCI-Baystate with my MFA students until Baystate closed. Once I got tenure, I started year-round College Reading and Writing classes for men and women at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay last year; as of 1/18/2019 we are at week 55 and have reached 102 incarcerated students. I know people at College Bound Dorchester through that work, and share weekly reports with them. Now I supervise an MFA student who continues the work, and we have an internal grant to pay an alumna to teach it over the summers. I also volunteer at the DYS Connelly Building , offering writing classes and help to incarcerated boys. F