KH! First of all, thank you for all of the energy that you and your bandmates have put into Wednesday so far!! I’ve been coming back to Bleeds repeatedly since it released…strong contender for AOTY 2025.

Here’s my question: were there any notable teachers/professors/classes that inspired you to follow your passion for writing lyrics and playing music? What about them or their classes gave you either skill or confidence to do what you do today?

Looking forward to seeing everyone perform live when the band comes out to LA soon!! Much love and longevity to you and yours!!

A: I was not super super into school to be quite honest.

My favorite teachers I ever had were my high school English teacher Mr. Post and my middle school history teacher Mr. Auman. Both of them were just really relaxed with how they let me interpret assignments and understood/encouraged my like… style of writing?

I had english teachers that tried to correct a lot of my like creative choices and it annoyed the shit out of me… cause like… it wasn’t like I was slackin!!! I was tryna try something that would keep me interested.

Most of my most influential teachers were like… musicians I listened to and writers. Richard Braughtian, Mary Karr, Harry Crews and Lynda Barry are my writing parents <3 I reference them and their work all the damn time.

I’ve never had formal music lessons but Jake taught me a lot when I was learning his songs to play on tour. And then YouTube kinda the best teacher of all time.

Q: hi karly…. i just read your piece for vulture and oh my gosh…. it was just beautiful. I just wanted to come on here and say thanks for writing the way you do and sharing with everyone. I live and die for North Carolina and it’s so wonderful to see the coolest people on the music scene come out of our state. Anyways I wanted to ask if you’ll be doing more memoir-like prose and if you have any pieces that shaped your writing style/inspired you for this one?

A: Hell yeah NC 4 Lyfeeeeee

Also yes…. I will be/am writing more… working on it:)

I have read soooooooooooo many books to prepare for my nonfiction writing stuff. The main influences rn are Mary Karr’s memoirs and her book about how to write one, Harry Crew’s A Childhood, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips essays Sleepovers, Joan Didion “Year of Magical Thinking” and like a million others but those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.