Jamie Pietras

Jamie Pietras is an award-winning journalist and the co-creator, writer, and host of “Soul Incarcerated,” a seven-episode biographical podcast series about the legacy of the Edge of Daybreak prison band and their landmark 1979 LP "Eyes of Love," created in a single five-hour session in the visiting room of the Powhatan Correctional Center. 

Soul Incarcerated is produced through a joint partnership of A+E Studios and iHeartPodcasts and is streaming on all major platforms. Pietras is story consultant on a related documentary, "Edge of Daybreak," directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter and to be released through the A+E Network.

His print reporting has been featured by outlets including Salon, Bomb, New York magazine, Village Voice, In These Times, New York Press, and The Nation. As a former staff writer with the alternative newsweekly Columbus Alive, he received Ohio Society Professional Journalists awards for investigative, environmental, and social justice reporting. 

Jamie has written nonfiction books for children and young adults for Scholastic Inc. and Chelsea House Publishers, and his book reviews and feature writing have appeared in publications including Time Out New York, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and The Writer. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University.