Leo Cardez (pen name) is an award-winning inmate writer. His work has been published in Under the Sun, The Abolitionist/Critical Resistance, The Crime Report, Prisoner Express, Beat Within, and other publications. He was a finalist for the New Press anthology What We Know. Leo is the director of the Dixon CC prison writing initiative and is a regular contributor to Prison Health News. He has worked as a prison GED tutor and currently works as a clerk at the prison eye lab. Leo is incarcerated in Dixon, IL.