KNEE BRACE PRESS

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

karlen lambert

  • Vulture

    By

    “Our love laid thick and bitter on my tongue/I choked it down as not to spit/I laughed so not to lunge.”

  • A white woman taking a mirror selfie. She is smiling at the camera. She is holding phone, which is purple, and wears a shirt with Adam Driver's face on it several times over.

    Stitch by Stitch

    By

    “I’ll spend my whole life/Disentangling from you/That’s all fine/I can handle it.”

  • A white woman poses for the camera, crouching. She wears a lilac dress and earings and dark purple lipstick and is surrounded by lilac furnature.

    In this house still

    By

    Karlen Lambert enjoys working with surrealism and color in her photography and other works. She is an avid reader, writer, purple enthusiast and music lover.

  • A white woman lays on the ground with her eyes closed. She is covered in turquoise petals. The fabric she lays on is also turquoise and covered in flowers.

    Down with me in the ditch

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    Karlen Lambert is a writer and an artist, currently studying for a BFA in 3D art at UNCC. Her work explores grief and neurodivergent presentation.