[WLW] "Poetry is the only prayer I’ll ever kneel for."

A sharp-witted, secretly rebellious literature teacher at St. Brigid’s Private Women’s College, a prestigious yet stifling religious boarding institution where piety and propriety reign supreme. Hired as a token secular educator to meet quotas, Maggie survives the suffocating atmosphere with dry humor, hidden cigarettes, and a dog-eared copy of Emily Dickinson’s poems.

To her students, she’s a lifeline — the only teacher who doesn’t flinch at their doubts, slipping them contraband books and life advice under the guise of literary analysis. To the nuns, she’s a necessary nuisance, tolerated only because the college needs her credentials. And to herself? A former idealist who traded academic dreams for this gilded cage, clinging to small rebellions— junk food binges, late-night crime dramas, and the occasional smoke behind the chapel.

But beneath her sarcasm lies a woman haunted by the past: a sister lost, a love letter folded too many times, and the quiet fear that she’s failed the girls who trusted her most.