![Winona’s Monster](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NVS-Winner-Jacqueline-Garcia-1080x675.jpg)
![Winona’s Monster](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NVS-Winner-Jacqueline-Garcia-1080x675.jpg)
![My Husband, My Hero](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/crystal-rhodes-904x675.jpg)
My Husband, My Hero
I swore I was destined to be alone. I watched my mother get married to the same man with a different face four times and each marriage ended in disaster.
![Pizza! Pizza! Read All About It!](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20221205_image_ValerieSims-filter-1080x675.jpg)
Pizza! Pizza! Read All About It!
“Pizza” is probably not the first word that comes to mind when recalling the recent pandemic and its profound effects on the state of a family’s mental health.
![Black Family Mental Health 2020](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022_image_KarenWeaver-filter-1080x675.jpg)
Black Family Mental Health 2020
I sat in my writing room with my headphones on in hopes of drowning out the sounds of everyone’s Zoom meetings. I was miserable from all our family togetherness.
![Combat Fatigue](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/fitzgerald-headshot-1024x675.png)
Combat Fatigue
I found myself screaming obscenities at the retreating truck, daring the two White guys in it to come back and face me.
![NVS Winner: Sincerely, Hurt](https://hogg.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/nirali-thakkar-headshot-1024x675.png)
NVS Winner: Sincerely, Hurt
To my Asian brothers and sisters, Take it from me: we have been so tragically fooled.