Twelve Words

Brian Trapp teaches creative writing and disability studies at the University of Oregon, where he directs the Kidd Creative Writing Workshops. His fiction and essays have been published in the Gettysburg Review, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, and Brevity, among other places. His nonfiction has been selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2013 and has won an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship. He is at work on a novel and a memoir, both of which are based on growing up with his twin brother, Danny.