Patrick W. Berry is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. His research includes the award-winning born-digital Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times (2012, with Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, Utah State University Press/Computers and Composition Digital Press) and Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison (2018, Southern Illinois University Press). He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level include courses in composition, rhetoric and ethics, professional writing, magazine production, and digital media composing in diverse classrooms, including a medium-high security prison. Originally from New York City, he completed an MA in literature at Brooklyn College while working in magazine publishing before turning to his chosen field of Writing Studies.