Karen Wilfrid Wrote An Essay Honoring The Memory Of Her Favorite Student
For Electric Literature, Karen Wilfrid wrote an essay about her former student who died by suicide at the age of twenty-one. Wilfrid told Study Hall that she wrote about how “complicated it is as a teacher to drive for a student many years after I taught him.”
In the essay, Wilfrid writes, “He was my favorite student. Most people, when I tell them that, assume I mean it figuratively—that he was special, a kid I liked a lot—because teachers aren’t supposed to have a literal favorite. But Tyler was mine.”
Wilfrid’s writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Dead Darlings, Cicada, and other outlets.
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