Gary Farlow holds a Juris Doctorate from Thomas Jefferson College of Law at Heed University. He completed undergraduate studies at Western Illinois University. He is a two time winner of the PEN America Writing Award for Prison Writers, in 2002 and 2018. His previous works include, “Prison-ese: A Survivor’s Guide to Prison Slang,” “The Cellblock Gourmet: Inmate Recipes from the Big House to Your House,” “Doin’ Time: How to Survive and Thrive in Prison,” and “Fragments of a Dream: The Poetry of Gary Farlow.”
Mr. Farlow’s art has been exhibited in Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD, at Cornell University in the Durland Library, and the Open Sky Gallery in San Francisco.
Drawing inspiration from impressionist landscape artist Claude Monet, and the realism of artist Edward Hopper, Farlow focuses on urbanscapes, highlighting architecture and cities. A life-long artist, Farlow’s medium is colored pencil, and he studies under artists Arthur Rogers and Christopher Reid.
