First pre-release review of my forthcoming story collection, Penfold's Menu of Magic and Malice! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

I passed my dissertation proposal defense!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Also disability scholar here. One of the problems with it being "impolite" to call an asshole an asshole is that, all too often, it leads to more "acceptable" ableist rhetoric.

Instantly added this to my TBR.

Harvested fresh basil from the garden to prepare it for freezing for winter soups. 🌱

Share your favorite black and white movie

I'm a nature girlie who stops to smile at every squirrel, raven, and moth on the cloudy autumnal walk into work.

Taking a Youtube and collaging break between writing cover letters for the academic job market.

Ekphrastic poems by disabled and/or queer poets! Recommendations? Links?

The fae trying to trap me like:

Genderqueer salamander! 🪨

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

Starting the morning with Pennywise and Flogging Molly on the way to work.

"otherly-abled" I've never heard this one before and I hate it. Omfg just use "disabled" I swear it's fine to say "disabled" you do not have to LITERALLY "other" us!

Does anyone have links to really cool experimental poems/poem-adjacent pieces by folks who are queer and/or disabled? (Looking to add to a current research project, but also this kind of thing is just a particular favorite of mine!) (Feel free to share your own work if you're queer/disabled.)

I highly recommend this anthology!

I saved a millipede this morning! My cat had him in her crosshairs, but I got him outside safely. It took three tries before he accepted a spot in the garden (because apparently basil was the only acceptable home for him and all other plant options were inferior).

Currently teaching: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns Currently reading: Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World by Guido A. Sanchez and James Fenner

Currently teaching: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns Currently reading: Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World by Guido A. Sanchez and James Fenner

It's a "strong cup of coffee and big piece of cake" type of morning.

quote with a fantasy being that’s NOT a vampire or werewolf

It’s Saturday 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

On the one hand, the kid and I have been sick for most of the week. On the other hand, the goldfinches have started bringing their babies by to visit!

trans rights are not debatable

Top tip: if a creative person does something you really like, you are at liberty to tell them so. There are excellent odds that you will make their day.

Kiddo and I got knocked on our asses by some kinda back-to-school sickness. 🤒

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Celebrate my birthday with me by reading one of my recent pieces! 🥳 audreytcarrollwrites.weebly.com/publications...

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies Proposal Deadline: September 5, 2025 Online Conference: November 7-8, 2025 creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere... #AcademicSky #Writing #CreativeWriting #Writers #Humanities #Interdisciplinary #Online #Conference

Reading before teaching. Happy Monday! 📖 : Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futures by Lee Mandelo

Reading before teaching. Happy Monday! 📖 : Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futures by Lee Mandelo

Who's ready for a Wizard of Oz retelling, y'all? 👠 themissingslate.com/20-fiction-m...

Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies Proposal Deadline: September 5, 2025 Online Conference: November 7-8, 2025 creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere... #AcademicSky #Writing #CreativeWriting #Writers #Humanities #Interdisciplinary #Online #Conference

"After procuring several fervent assurances that his wife would apologize sincerely and deeply for his absence from Rosings that evening, Mr Collins reluctantly died." Thus begins my sapphic romance between now-widowed & hopelessly adrift Charlotte and grown-up, confident scientist Mary Bennet 💘

Just in time for #AWP26 rejection season!

Read my Wizard of Oz retelling, "It Must Be Inconvenient to Be Made of Flesh," in The Missing Slate! themissingslate.com/20-fiction-m...

Read my Wizard of Oz retelling, "It Must Be Inconvenient to Be Made of Flesh," in The Missing Slate! themissingslate.com/20-fiction-m...

1. "feminine modesty" 🤮 2. They're not RIGHTS if only the people you like and deem worthy get them! We have a highly technical, niche academic term for this: PRIVILEGE.

New poem? New poem! 🐦 vagabondcitylit.com/2025/08/18/n...

New poem? New poem! 🐦 vagabondcitylit.com/2025/08/18/n...

Reminder! Nominations due October 15th. Editors can nominate in any category. Readers can nominate in 3/4 categories. Writers & artists can self-nominate in 2 categories. All genres eligible. Spread the word! Repost! Tag lit mags, writers, & readers! genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/genrepunk-aw...

My semester starts up tomorrow! I'm theming my literature courses around social horror. You can check out the full reading list here: audreytheffers.weebly.com/sample-assig...

Reminder! Nominations due October 15th. Editors can nominate in any category. Readers can nominate in 3/4 categories. Writers & artists can self-nominate in 2 categories. All genres eligible. Spread the word! Repost! Tag lit mags, writers, & readers! genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/genrepunk-aw...

QT someone you wish was still alive.

We welcome grad students, tenured/TT faculty, independent scholars, and contingent faculty! If you have any questions about the conference, I'm the CWSO Chair and would be happy to chat. creativewritingstudies.net/2025-confere...

What's up, #AcademicSky! We're accepting proposals for the 10th annual Creative Writing Studies Conference on the theme Relatable! until September 5th. The conference this year is online November 7th & 8th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEV5MoTsNB_KKUaPP-2yjHdc4fQrsNA3CDBewnzQp4m1szrg/viewform

Lil friend helping me revise my dissertation proposal in the garden.

What's up, #AcademicSky! We're accepting proposals for the 10th annual Creative Writing Studies Conference on the theme Relatable! until September 5th. The conference this year is online November 7th & 8th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEV5MoTsNB_KKUaPP-2yjHdc4fQrsNA3CDBewnzQp4m1szrg/viewform