KNEE BRACE PRESS

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

disability

  • A white man sits in a black wheelchair and smiles to something off-camera. He wears a blue baseball hat and a green sweatshirt.

    Up the Stairs

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    Ginger-haired, disabled writer and alternative film poster maker Andrew Hall writes his Knee Brace debut about disability, ableism, and possibility.

  • My X-Ray Vision

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    When he was a kid, Brenton Fisher’s response to, “Why do your eyes look like that?” became, “Because I have X-ray vision.”

  • An Asian man smiling with his mouth closed and looking at the camera. He has short, black hair and is wearing a black shirt and glasses. He is standing against a white wall.

    The Trees

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    In his poem, The Trees, Brian Lee muses on questions of nature, the human mind, and neurodiversity.

  • An interview with Regina Sage

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    We spoke to author Regina Sage about Ocean’s Embrace, the disability representation in the novel, and creature romance.

  • A white woman with shoulder-length light brown hair stands in a garden. She is smiling and wearing a blue dress with short sleeves.

    Try Not to Blink

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    This poem by Jean Janicke reflects on hours at the National Eye Institute in a “natural history study” for her type of blindness.

  • A person with shoulder-length black hair. He is hiding behind a small bunch of white flowers.
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    T.C. Long has also recorded an audio version of this piece, both to increase accessibility and to lend additional humanity and dimensionality to disabled folks in media.

  • A white person with long, blonde hair smiling at the camera. She is wearing a red and white plaid shirt.

    (DIS)ABILITY: A PALINDROME

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    In her latest poem, Sarah Steinbacher offers us a different perspective on disability and those who would have her doubt herself.

  • A pale, blonde person wearing red lipstick, orange-rimmed glasses, and a blue sweater with white clouds on it. She is standing against the backdrop of several pieces of art.

    Eppi Girl

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    In her short story for Knee Brace Press, Zianna Ruiha introduces us to Eppi Girl, a disabled people pleaser who wants nothing more than to tell her coworkers that her body is none of their business.

  • A white person with long, blonde hair smiling at the camera. She is wearing a red and white plaid shirt.

    Let Down

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    Sarah Steinbacher is a disabled nonbinary author, poet, disability advocate, instructor at The Writing Barn, and member of both SCBWI and Storyteller Academy.

  • A white woman with dark hair is smiling and looking off-camera. She wears a white, long sleeved shirt.

    Temporarily non-disabled

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    “My body holds a secret. It demands/to tell me, but won’t whisper it to you.” Poet Christa Fairbrother is back with a piece about invisible illnesses and the pressure to hide them.