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Hello there!
Kyri Hester is a GHS alumna celebrating 10 years since her graduation in 2009. She got her bachelor's degree in English Education with minors in Creative Writing and History from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2014. After graduating college, she taught in Oklahoma City for a few years before returning to the community that shaped her formative years.
Now she teaches freshman and sophomore English as well as Mythology. More than anything, she hopes that she is able to provide students with opportunities to encounter and learn more about cultures outside of their own through reading and discussing their experiences as well as the experiences of other peoples and cultures.
Currently Reading
The Deep
by Alma Katsu
From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic.
Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. Between mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, the guests of the Titanic have found themselves suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone from the moment they set sail. Several of them, including maid Annie Hebley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, are convinced there's something sinister--almost otherwordly--afoot. But before they can locate the source of the danger, as the world knows, disaster strikes.
 Years later, Annie, having survived that fateful night, has attempted to put her life back together. Working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, newly refitted as a hospital ship, she happens across an unconscious Mark, now a soldier fighting in World War I. At first, Annie is thrilled and relieved to learn that he too survived the sinking, but soon, Mark's presence awakens deep-buried feelings and secrets, forcing her to reckon with the demons of her past--as they both discover that the terror may not yet be over.
Brilliantly combining the supernatural with the height of historical disaster, The Deep is an exploration of love and destiny, desire and innocence, and, above all, a quest to understand how our choices can lead us inexorably toward our doom.
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