My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child' "Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through the world."

Thanks to @wbur.org for adapting my essay into an audio piece. You can hear me and Danny at age 5, 8, and 25, including us joking about who is the evil twin. But it also wonderful to hear my mom talking to Dan again. Please check it out and share.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child' "Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through the world."

"If we extend the satellite metaphor...it shows how our lives bend to the increased gravity of our #disabled siblings in profound ways. The satellite makes no claims to a syndrome, as if trying to compete with a sibling’s diagnoses." Acre's @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social for NPR. tinyurl.com/3avkm68u

My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child' "Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through the world."

I wrote this short essay for NPR @wbur.org on being uncomfortable with the "glass child" metaphor and wanting a new way to talk about my sibling experience. Check it out.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Sacramento! I'm coming to you on Wednesday March 18th at 7 pm for a book event at Beers Books in conversation with Sacramento-based Acrystal Pugh, board member of the @ARC of California and fellow “sib.” Please come!
#sacramento #disabilitylit #siblings #cerebralpalsyawareness #disabilityawareness

pegasusbookstore.com/trapp-moniz

On Tuesday March 17th I'll be in conversation with the great Tomas Moniz at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkley, CA. Event starts at 6:30. Please share with anyone who lives in the Bay Area!

Thanks for reading!

Acre Books editors at the AWP conference. Green tarp background.

Acre poets and prose writers on stage for an event at the AWP conference.

Thank you, #AWP26 community! Our editors and authors hope to see you next time! 📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

Acre authors in action at #AWP26! Science, accessibility, poetry, medicine, community building. Our writers have you covered! Check out these events featuring #CdEskilson (SCREAM / QUEEN), #MCynthiaCheung (COMMON DISASTER), and @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social (RANGE OF MOTION). 📚🎉

#AWP26! Don't miss your chance to meet many of our Acre authors, who will be signing books throughout the conference. Booth 1191. 🖊️🎉📚

This is a great book about caregiving, especially its sibling chapter.

We spy a number of Acre authors on this list! 🎉🎉🎉

Mark your calendars, #Portland! Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social (RANGE OF MOTION) will be joined in conversation with Gabriel Urza (THE SILVER STATE). January 29, Broadway #Books from 6 to 7 pm. Link for details! 🖊️📚🎉 #booksky
broadwaybooks.net/event/2026-0...

We're looking forward to reviewing your submissions for the first issue of our relaunch! Open until February 15 and then we close for a while. We'll have a new website and logo coming up soon—be on the lookout!

northwestreview.submittable.com

Thank you!

Thanks, @longreads.com! There are actually some very similar scenes in both! @acrebooks.bsky.social

Thanks!

Text overlayed on a photo of camp bunk beds. Contributor Book Feature: RANGE OF MOTION by Brian Trapp. Brief excerpt from book reads: So far, Camp Cheerful seemed to be mostly about singing. You sang for your breakfast. You sang for your lunch. When you tried to fall asleep, good luck. Someone was singing. The morning they drove across the bridge and into camp, the very first activity was to gather around the flagpole and sing about baby sharks and a-bear-way-up-there and the spelling out of b-a-n-a-n-a. The camp had a distinct feel of a cult, with lyrics designed to break the will.

Author photo of author Brian Trapp.

Ninth Letter is pleased to present an excerpt from RANGE OF MOTION (@acrebooks.bsky.social) by former 9L contributor Brian Trapp (@btrapperkeeper@bsky.social)! Plus, 9L staffer Nathan Metz chats with the author for an exclusive interview. Check it out on our website. Link in bio.

Thanks to @ninthletter.bsky.social for featuring an excerpt of the novel along with an interview and lovely introduction by Nathan Metz. I published the first gasp of Range of Motion in Ninth Letter way back in 2013.

Submit to the Northwest Review! I'm happy to be EIC and fiction editor, working with CNF editor @michaelcopperman.bsky.social and poetry editor Jan Verberkmoes. We are bringing this historic magazine back from the dead. Expect our first issue to drop in March/April!

One of my favorite comedians blurbed my book. Zach Anner, actor and writer for ABC's Speechless, gave my novel the kindest endorsement I could ask for. Please watch the hilarious Speechless episode where he gets tased by Minnie Driver. This man deserves his own TV show. @acrebooks.bsky.social

Submit to the Northwest Review! I'm happy to be EIC and fiction editor, working with CNF editor @michaelcopperman.bsky.social and poetry editor Jan Verberkmoes. We are bringing this historic magazine back from the dead. Expect our first issue to drop in March/April!

50 Cleveland Book Releases We Loved in 2025 Find new releases in fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and more from authors affiliated with Northeast Ohio's literary scene.

Congrats to Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! We're excited to see RANGE OF MOTION featured on this best of 2025 list! #novel #amreading #booksky 🎉🎉🎉
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...

The last of the Maryland book tour photos. I saw some old friends and made a few new ones and did that absurd tourist thing where you put your finger on the Washington monument. I will miss the people and their traffic.

Including RANGE OF MOTION (@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social) and DEFIANT ACTS (@thejs3.bsky.social)! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky

Growing Up Alongside a Sibling With Disabilities A new novel explores what happens when one twin is born with significant challenges.

"I hope people with chronic conditions can see themselves and their family members in these characters and see the humor and the resilience in them as well." New interview with Acre author @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! #bluesky #novel 📚🎉
www.healthcentral.com/chronic-heal...

Millay House Rockland Writing and caregiving often exist in tension—and in conversation—with one another. Whether planned or unexpected, short-term or lifelong, caregiving shapes how writers live, work, and create. For wri...

millayhouserockland.org/events/2025/...

Join us today for this free online panel: Writing While Caregiving, 6:30-8p Eastern, sponsored by the @millayhouse . The panel will be moderated by @jeneva22.bsky.social -- Hope to see you there for readings and rich conversation on time, sense of self, advocacy, and ethics. Link in comments.

It's a great book, Brad! I've been recommending it to the dads.

I loved your book, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social! Give me a shout if you ever come to Oregon.