‘On the Rise with Fly’

By Flynard Miller

Flynard “Fly” Miller is an artist. Some of his pieces can be found on Parole Illinois. You can also find “The Long Term” animation on the Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project’s website.

Fly is a Northwestern alum, Class of 2024. He has spent the last 23 years wrongfully convicted. Log on to FreeFly1.com to find out more about Fly’s case. He is searching for law students who would be willing to help him fight for his freedom.

Fly has won art contests and has had his art displayed in books such as Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex, published by Hat and Beard Press, as well as publications such as Poetry magazine. Titles of Fly’s work include “Buried,” “Boat Load,” and “Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death.” Fly also writes poetry which has been published in Making Choices Prison Publication. You can check out Fly’s profile on NPEP’s website and read his exciting pilot thriller, “Brandish.”