Nigel Poor is an artist and cofounder and co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle. [1] [2] She is co-author of the book This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life . She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. [3]
Nigel Poor is an artist and cofounder and co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle. [1] [2] She is co-author of the book This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life . She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. [3]
Poor grew up near Boston. [3] She has a B.A. in Photography and Literature from Bennington College in Vermont, and an M.F.A in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art. [1]
Poor began volunteering at San Quentin State Prison in 2011 as a photography teacher with the Prison University Project. [4] [5] [6] From her work in photography came the idea for The San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project, [7] the precursor to Ear Hustle.
She is a Professor of Photography at California State University, Sacramento. [4] [8]
Poor's photography has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. She created a series of photographs based on an archive of photos from San Quentin, in which incarcerated men annotated the photographs with their own impressions and context. [9] [3]
Poor and her co-hosts were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Season 4 of Ear Hustle. [1] [10]