Audrey T. Carroll
Beautiful Despite
![A hybrid poem with text and images including smeared lipstick, taped flowers, and the outline of a body. The hybrid text uses social media comments to comment on ableism and biphobia.](https://www.garlicpresslit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Beautiful-Despite.jpg)
Audrey T. Carroll is the author of What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024), Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), and In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be (kith books, 2023). Her writing has appeared in Lost Balloon, CRAFT, JMWW, Bending Genres, and others. She is a bi/queer/genderqueer and disabled/chronically ill writer. She serves as a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine. She can be found at http://AudreyTCarrollWrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter/Instagram.