He Was a Star Student—He Had Also Committed a Grisly Murder. One Teacher Tries to Make Sense Of It.

He Was a Star Student—He Had Also Committed a Grisly Murder. One Teacher Tries to Make Sense Of It.

We are so pleased to get to share with you this moving story, “One of My Babies,” from 2024 Narratively Memoir Prize finalist Matt W. Miller, an acclaimed poet who has recently taken up essay writing. Here’s what Matt said about working on this piece: “I’ve been thinking about and trying to write about, in poetry and prose, this experience for over 20 years now. I never quite arrived at what I was trying to say. I think only now, in middle age, …