“I love high school English. I mean this is where I learned to be a human. This is where I learned like books aren’t just books, texts, short stories, poems, whatever. It’s not just the words on the page. A person wrote that down, they were feeling something, so much so that they had to put it on a page. I want to be able to feel what they felt when they were writing it, as I’m reading it. And I want to be able to teach kids that they can do the same thing, and that they have the skills and that they have the power to do the very same thing that I do,” Griffin said.