“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”

One of the best things about literature is the individual experience everyone has when interacting with a piece. Reading a great novel, poem, short story, essay, or another piece of literature can allow one to understand the experience of others. Literature transcends history, genres, social contexts, and morals, which allows for great self and group reflection. Through reading and writing, I have been able to become a part of everything I have read and written. I hope to allow my students to have that same experience by creating a curious and open environment surrounded by canonical and non-cannon texts. I want to help them lose themselves as well as find themselves, all within the world of words.