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Author: April McCloud

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  • A white woman with light brown hair smiling with her mouth closed. The photo is a selfie. Also pictured: a bookcase in the background and a (really cute) brown and black cat.

    April McCloud [she/her] is a 1% bionic human hailing from Rochester, NY. She’s a librarian, educator, and opinionated black belt who worships her cat and hopes to be reincarnated as a red panda. Her CNF work “Unpacking” has been released in The Black Fork Review and her debut novel is forthcoming from Rebel Satori Press.

  • Pill-chinko

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    Red oblong, 3x… AM. Clink. LUNCH. Clink. DINNER. Clink. Repeat… 21

  • Our Disabilities

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    In her new poem, April McCloud describes her experience as a disabled person having disabled friends.

  • Invisible Disability

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    Is your disability invisible, or is it not real at all? In her newest poem, April McCloud tackles medical gaslighting, self doubt, and more in a single declaration.

  • Reason

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    In their new poem Reason, Knee Brace alumni Elise Scott and April McCloud write about the stark contrast between the speaker’s devastation about losing their healthcare and the calm with which the robot over the phone changed the speaker’s life forever.

  • Application for Disability 

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    Poet April McCloud (she/her, 1% bionic human) writes about her complex relationship with disability in the form of an application.