KNEE BRACE PRESS

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

neurodivergence

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    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.

  • A white person with dark hair and brown eyes gazes at the camera. She wears a dark gray T-shirt. The background is red brick.

    Fishbowl

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    Fishbowl is a poem about feeling alone, even when the speaker is surrounded by people.

  • A Black person with white-rimmed glasses smiles widely with their eyes closed. They are holding their book, DEAR PHILOMENA by Mugabi Byenkya, and are surrounded by a circle of light.

    An interview with Mugabi Byenkya

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    Memoirist and magical realism author Mugabi Byenkya writes for themselves. Or, more accurately, the angsty, confused, Black, Ugandan-Rwandan-Nigerian, disabled, queer, polygender, and neurodivergent little human they used to be and still are.

  • A white person, with long, dark hair and glasses smiles at the camera. The background is all thin threes and blue skies.

    An interview with E.M. Anderson

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    No one understands why eighty-three-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, but Edna, armed with only gumption and knitting needles, leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. We spoke with author E.M. Anderson about The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher, mental health and invisible illness representation, and American white pelicans.

  • An interview with Bridgette Dutta Portman

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    Olive Joshi has messed up big time. When she falls through a portal into her own abandoned story, Olive finds double suns scorching the earth, a brutal prince seeking power, and her heroine missing. We spoke with author Bridgette Dutta Portman about The Coseema Saga, the third book of which is out now.

  • An interview with Camri Kohler

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    When twenty-three-year-old surly (and slightly tipsy) Frankie finds her hag of a grandmother dead on the sofa, her best friend Ben introduces her to the magical underbelly of Aspen Ridge, Utah. We spoke to debut author Camri Kohler about her horrifying urban fantasy novel, Peachy.

  • Searching for Bunker Norms

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    It’s the end of the world. Then again, we Spoonies have always been able to adapt. While the non-disabled, richest one percent were hidden underground in bunkers during the catastrophe, a network spearheaded by a disabled woman had secretly gathered to protect the most disregarded of the population.

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    Staying Sparkly

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    Does your anxiety stick to you, like glitter or sand? In their new poem, Staying Sparkly, Sojourner “Hughes” Davidson details their relationship with anxiety and how closely it adheres to their skin, however often they try to wash it away.

  • Try to Understand

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    So often, neurodivergent folks have to mask who they are in order to fit in. In her poem Try to Understand, poet and author Clara Olivo touches on how she hid her inner self in order to appear neurotypical, to the point she began to believe it was necessary.

  • Summoning Serotonin

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    Sometimes, all we need is a little help, even if that help comes from an unexpected source. Author Amanda Cessor shares with us a fantastical short story about her very real experience with ADHD, anxiety, and depression.