Steven Reynaldo Perez

Steven Reynaldo Perez was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1978. He is a Creative Writing and Literature student at the University of Texas Austin under Professor Deb Olin Unferth. He is a staunch advocate against the AEDPA, the PLRA, the one-writ rule, illegal convictions and sentences, crooked judges and prosecutors, and mass incarceration. His published memoirs include “The Promise,” “Mom’s Still Sick,” and “Painful Days.” He is serving a 60-year sentence at the Connally Unit in Texas State Prison.

Winner, 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest – Fielding Dawson Prize in Nonfiction Memoir for “A Texas Prisoner Remembers


Articles by Steven Reynaldo Perez

Wednesday September 7

A Texas Prisoner Remembers

Steven Perez was awarded the Fielding Dawson Prize in Nonfiction Memoir in the 2022 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population. I remember