Ellen Barry is a social justice activist who is deeply committed to racial justice and the end of mass incarceration. In 1978, she founded Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), a non-profit organization which has advocated on behalf of incarcerated parents, their children and family members. For the past five decades, she has worked with organizations focusing on community healing, racial and restorative justice. She has written extensively on issues involving women in prison, abolition and racial justice. She began writing science fiction as a serious advocation in November of 2019, and now has an almost complete novel, Light of a Different Sun. She has also found that being part of a powerful and productive weekly writing group, A Writer’s Life, convened by Andrea Canaan, has provided significant support and inspiration to a daily writing practice.