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Sheena King's Submerged: On Healing from Abuse While Navigating a Lifetime of Imprisonment is a raw, harrowing memoir anchored in revolutionary and transformative love. Sheena is presently serving a life sentence at SCI Muncy in Muncy, PA, so this book launch and celebration will feature special audio readings from Sheena herself and stickers signed by Sheena so people can get a signed copy, plus in-person discussion with her advocates, support network, and family including Rikeyah Lindsay from Straight Ahead, Valerie Kiebala, Rosanne Harth, and Bret Grote of the Abolitionist Law Center, poet and author Steve Bloom (and Sheena's editor), Sheena's daughter, Keeva King, and possibly others. Join us to celebrate the release of Submerged which offers essential insights for all who want to understand and participate in the growing movement for alternatives to incarceration. 

Sheena King is presently serving a life sentence at SCI Muncy in Muncy, PA, where she is an advocate for incarcerated women, with degrees in religious studies and Christian counseling. She is the published author of a book of poems and journal entries titled UnHeard Soul and 3Sum. Her poems and essays have been published in journals including Let's Get Free, Daughters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Peace and Justice Newspaper, Prison Health News, Centers for Wisdom, and Tenacious. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including International Library of Poetry, and Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States. Her newest book is Submerged: On Healing from Abuse While Navigating a Lifetime of Imprisonment (PM Press, 2025).

Cosponsored by PM Press and the Abolitionist Law Center.