About me

About C. Fausto Cabrera

My Story

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Christopher Fausto Cabrera is a published writer, artist & social justice advocate fighting to correct his sentence. He is entering his 20th year of incarceration where he focused on his rehabilitation through art, writing, Restorative Justice & community building. His continued incarceration is doing a disservice to society by negating his potential. Here are some of his accomplishments while in prison. Imagine what he could be doing to repair the harm once he is released. Cabrera is already an active participate in many social justice movement’s, community organizations & academic circles. He is asking for your support in his push for immediate release.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

C. Fausto Cabrera

*The Washington Post Magazine’s November 2019 issue featured my art on the cover & an essay that won an award for best individual issue.

*”The Parameters of Our Cage” w/photographer Alec Soth having been reviewed in The Guardian, CNN Style, Buzzfeed News, & The New Yorker.

I’ve published several poems in various literary journals:

—“Yes We Could” in The American Literary Review
—“License to Carry” in The Antioch Review
–“Travel Time” in The California Quarterly
—“Priceless Expendables ” in The Colorado Review
—“Solitaire Confinements ” in The Comstock Review
–“All I Know About Prison Shanks,
“Castles Made of Ash,
“Solitaire Confinements,
“When Lazarus Walks in descant
–“Free Press (10,000 Lakes) won the PEN American Fielding A. Dawson Prison Writing contest prize
–“When Kneaded” won 2nd Place in the PEN American Prison Writing Contest
–“Castles Made of Ash” in Puerto Del Sol & was nominated for “Best of the Net” in 2020
–“All I Know About Prison Shanks” in The Water~Stone Review
–“Unabsolved Just Us, &
“What Happens When We Run From Them (nominated for a Pushcart Prize!) in The Woodward Review

*Published essay on The Missouri Review’s Literature on Lockdown online series

*Essay, poems & art in Anthology “From the Inside Out: Letter’s to Young Men Vol.1”

*Origin story in Deborah Appleman’s book “Words No Bars Can Hold”.

*Podcast interview on Designed Conviction’s “Life of a Lifer” series (designedconviction.com)

*$2,000 Donation Project with Until We Are All Free (UWAAF.org).

*Science Museum of Minnesota: Circle Dialogues: Race and the Criminal Punishment System.

ALLIES

C. Fausto Cabrera

–Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (mnprisonwriting.org)
–Myon Speaks the People’s Voice (contact: Myon Burrell)-logo design
–The People’s Canvas (contact: Antonio Williams)
–The Minnesota Youth Divergent Program funded through MN Human Services of which I am a board member(contact: Charlene Myklebust…ckmyklebust@gmail)