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About AudreyAudrey T. Carroll is the editor of the anthology Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft (Human/Kind Press, 2020) and author of the poetry collection Queen of Pentacles (Choose the Sword Press, 2016). She is a Queens, NYC native who received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University, her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas, and her MA in English from the University of Rhode Island.
Audrey's scholarly interests include Creative Writing Studies, marginalized perspectives on narrative craft, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Bisexuality Studies, and inclusive pedagogy. She serves as a Diversity and Inclusion Editor for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies and as the Chair of Publications on the Creative Writing Studies Organization's Board of Directors. Audrey is a bi/queer and disabled/chronically ill writer. Her recent stories that feature bi characters include "Telling Stories to Myself" (Hawaii Pacific Review), "The Keepers of Miller's Grove" (Prismatica Magazine), and "All I Am" (peculiar). "The Keepers of Miller's Grove" also features a chronically ill character. Many of her recent creative nonfiction pieces have centered around disability/chronic illness, such as "Surviving Survival Mode" (Jet Fuel Review) and "How to Have It All" (Vagabond City, Best of the Net 2020 Nominee). Her craft essays "Bi Joy as Resistance" and "Authenticating Detail and Disability Narratives" have been published by So to Speak. Her pedagogy article "In the Room Where It Happens: Access, Equity, and the Creative Writing Classroom" was published by Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, after it had originally been presented as a paper at the 2021 Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference. Audrey loves coffee, sitcoms, and ordering too many library books. Her favorite book is Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan. Her other literary influences include James Baldwin, Carmen Maria Machado, Julie Otsuka, Casey McQuiston, Jericho Brown, Ada Limon, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Madeline Miller. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, her daughter, and her adopted Arkansan cats Joplin and Andromeda. Pronouns: she/her |
