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Randall Horton, writer, poet, artist, and an associate professor of English at the University of New Haven, led a talk and reading as part of RIT's Theodore Albert Viehe Endowed Lectureship. Horton is the only person in the U.S. with seven felony convictions and academic tenure. He is the author of a pair of memoirs — "Hook" and "Dead Weight." The books tell his gripping story of being a homeless drug addict, international cocaine smuggler and incarcerated felon before showing the redemptive role writing and literature played in helping him reclaim his life.

Horton is the recipient of the 2022 Creative Capital Award, the American Book Award for Oral Literature, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir, a Poet-in-Residence at the Civil Right Corpse, and a Soze Foundation Right to Return Fellow. His latest work, Dead Weight: A Memoir, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2022.

He is also co-founder of the social justice band Radical Reversal and a member of the band Heroes Are Gang Leaders.