Kathie Klarreich “Exchange for Change”

Taking A Leap -- Deborah Brown

Miami Book Fair Author "HEAR US: Writing From the Inside During the Time of COVID"

Kathie Klarreich is the Executive Director at Exchange for Change. She is also the author of Madame Dread: A Tale of Love and a contributor to two anthologies: So Spoke the Earth and Women, Writing, and Prison. In 2010 she received a Knight International Journalism Fellowship to train journalists in investigative reporting in Haiti, where she spent half of the last 24 years reporting for print, radio and television, including Time, The New York Times, ABC, and NPR. Kathie started facilitating writing workshops in the correctional system in 2009 and began the writing exchanges with academic institutions in 2013. She graduated from the University of Michigan and received her MFA from Leslie University.