Sara G. Kielly was awarded a Ridgeway Reporting Grant from Solitary Watch in 2023. She is an investigative journalist, poet, and incarcerated member of Empowerment Avenue’s Writing for Liberation program. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, The New York Amsterdam News, Spotlong Review, New York Focus, and Film Comment. She wrote the first iteration of this short script in her “Short Film Writing, Development, and Production” class in Marymount Manhattan College’s Bedford Hills College Program.
