Rosie Stockton

Rosie Stockton is PhD candidate in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. They work on the political economy of the California carceral state, focusing on long-term sentencing, the criminalization of social reproduction, and queer abolitionist practices of care, kinship, and mutual aid. They are an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and the director of the Creative Writing Stream of the UC Sentencing Project, where they facilitate a poetry workshop at the California Institution for Women. They are the author of two books of poetry, Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books, 2025).