Ethel Duffy Turner was a writer known for her novel, One-Way Ticket, on the San Quentin State Prison, as well as her journalistic work on the Mexican Revolution. Born in 1885 in San Pablo, California, Turner went to primary school on the grounds of San Quentin, where her father worked as a guard, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley. In the build-up to the Mexican Revolution, her writing was frequently published in American magazines and newspapers sympathetic to the Mexican liberal cause, and she continued her political involvement well into the 1960s by writing a biography on revolutionary Ricardo Flores Magón. A former resident of both Northern California and Mexico, Turner is also the author of several short stories, essays, and novellas drawing on her experiences in the Californian literary scene. In this interview, Turner discusses literary pursuits, childhood memories of San Quentin, and her longstanding interest and involvement in the Mexican Revolution.