Rebecca Bernard’s (’21 Ph.D.) teaching work at a men’s prison in Kentucky provided a new way of looking at incarcerated people – and inspiration for her writing. Bernard, an assistant professor of English at Angelo State University, worked on the stories during her first two years of her doctoral work in creative writing and fiction at UNT that became the book Our Sister Who Will Not Die. It won the 2021 Non/Fiction Collection Prize from The Journal and was published by Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press. Her dissertation, with the working title In the Way of Family, is now undergoing revisions with her agent.