KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

Author: Elise Scott

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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.

  • A white person with brown hair, colorful glasses, and purple lipstick wearing a blue shirt.

    Elise Scott writes from their lived experiences of fat-positivity, queerness, disability, mental illness, and moving through carnivorous shadows. Their life has been an adventure, from facilitating equine therapy for trauma survivors to counseling at-risk youth with the aid of an inordinately large sub-woofer and beyond, and their poetry has appeared in High Shelf, HerStry and Quibble among others. Their website is elise-scott.com.

  • 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.

  • The Apocryphal Horseman

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    Finding someone with shared experiences is everything. In their new poem, The Apocryphal Horseman, Elise Scott writes about their relationship with their friend, April.