All of the works featured in this issue of Tacenda Magazine were written by students at the University of North Alabama and students at American university

Editor Biographies

Robert Johnson is a professor of Justice, Law, and Society at American University and a widely published author of fiction and nonfiction dealing with crime and punishment. His short story, "The Practice of Killing," won the Wild Violet Fiction Contest in 2003. Several of his works have been adapted for the stage. His best known work of social science, Death Work: A Study of the Modern Execution Process, won the Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Katie Owens-Murphy is an Associate Professor of English and Graduate Coordinator of the MA English program at the University of North Alabama. She also serves as PI for the Restorative Justice Lab and as the state coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Her work with people in prison has appeared in Humanities, Critical Criminology, Mississippi Quarterly, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her most recent book, Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row, was published by Vanderbilt UP in 2023.