Critical Storytelling from the Pandemic

High School and university students examine the COVID-19 pandemic's lasting impact from quarantine's isolation and alienation to lost teaching and learning opportunities and the reckonings made on what was lost and what was gained. Spanning three years of pandemic life, the selections invoke memory to provide a sense of closure and healing for the trauma that ensued. From pieces written in the gritty moments of the pandemic’s upheaval to recent reflections on the impact it has sown, this collection preserves students’ perspectives on the historical and life-changing end of the world as we knew it.

Contributors are: Jackson Allen, Leslie Anukwu, Amelia Ayotte, Tessa Benedict, Carmella Braniger, Arica Burns, Piper Charlton, Kathryn Coffey, Deborah Corr, Madelyn Cummins, Trinity Delgado, Connor Edwards, Aiden Etchason, Alexandra Gomes de Silva, Hannah Sullivan, Lyric Greenwood, Paris Halbert, Jack Hughes, Dezz Ingle, Nina Magalhães, Jaden McClain, Mariana Ruiz Nascimento, João Pajaro, Rochelle Pense, Beth Portman, Morgan Potter, Alyssa Reeter, Alexandra Ristfeldt, Breanna Rousseau, Gabriele Silvestre, Hannah Sullivan, and Evelyn Utterback.