Brittany Sirlin
Brittany Sirlin is an educator living in New York, New York. She has a Bachelor of Science in secondary education for English Language Arts from Penn State University and a Masters in Literacy from Hofstra University. She teaches English Language Arts at a local middle school and facilitates after school book clubs. Brittany is an aspiring writer who, at odd hours between teaching and being with her three kids, works on a YA novel and other shorter works of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her first published work, Playing Dead, was released in March 2023 in an anthology titled Our Magical Pandemic.
December 12th, 2023 | by Brittany Sirlin
When it’s dark and the tiny stars stuck to the ceiling glow above our heads, my daughter asks the questions that press at the corners of her five-year-old mind. One night, as her freshly washed hair dampened my shirt, she asked, “What’s the meanest thing someone ever called you?”
