The only things in my bookbag were a small pack of Kleenex, five sticks of Big Red gum, and a copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive, the Jim Morrison biography by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. It was April 1982, and I was nearing the end of Ms. Margo’s 7th grade English class […]
Lee Gabay
L.A. Gabay is an educator, writer, and researcher whose work focuses on the intersections of youth culture, education, and incarceration. His book, I Hope I Don’t See You Tomorrow (2016), explores education inside juvenile detention. He teaches English at the Judith S. Kaye Transfer High School in Manhattan, and his writing has appeared in Slam Magazine, Bleacher Report, iPondr, Cineaste, and others. In 2016, The New York Times named him a “New Yorker of the Year.”