Brian Trapp
@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social
Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social, 2025); Steinbeck Fellow 2021-22; Work in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Longreads, and Brevity. https://linktr.ee/btrapperkeeper
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Brian Trapp
@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social
· Sep 27
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
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"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 📚🎉
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Growing Up Alongside a Sibling With Disabilities
A new novel explores what happens when one twin is born with significant challenges.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"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 📚🎉
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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.
Thank you, @electricliterature.com for letting me shout out my favorite comic novels about disability, including work by Stanley Elkin, Saou Ichikawa, Cy Weise, Madeleine Ryan,
@aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social and
@tricialockwood.bsky.social.
@aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social and
@tricialockwood.bsky.social.
“Disabled people and caregivers not as angels and saints but as complex and flawed human beings…who are often hilarious.” (@btrapperkeeper.bsky.social)
9 Novels That Find Comic Truth in Disability - Electric Literature
In these stories, disabled people and caregivers are complex, flawed human beings…who are often hilarious
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October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thank you, @electricliterature.com for letting me shout out my favorite comic novels about disability, including work by Stanley Elkin, Saou Ichikawa, Cy Weise, Madeleine Ryan,
@aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social and
@tricialockwood.bsky.social.
@aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social and
@tricialockwood.bsky.social.
Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for featuring an interview with me. Check it out. Link in comments.
"We’re taught that disability is tragic, sad, and maybe inspiring. But comedy is the genre of survival."
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
Today on the site, contributor Anya Groner interviews @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social about his new novel, RANGE OF MOTION.
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for featuring an interview with me. Check it out. Link in comments.
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Delighted to see RANGE OF MOTION featured at @shelf-awareness.com! Link to watch the #book trailer for @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's debut #novel! 🎉📚🎥
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Book Trailer of the Day: Range of Motion
Range of Motion by Brian Trapp (Acre Books).
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October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Delighted to see RANGE OF MOTION featured at @shelf-awareness.com! Link to watch the #book trailer for @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's debut #novel! 🎉📚🎥
www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
Thanks, CR!
Congratulations to former CR editor @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social . His much-anticipated debut novel, RANGE OF MOTION, publishes today with our friends at @acrebooks.bsky.social .
Range of Motion
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them.…
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October 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thanks, CR!
Range of Motion is officially out today. It took 10+ years. No matter how difficult the writing was, deep down I knew a character like my twin brother needed to exist. Don’t give up, kids. @acrebooks.bsky.social #briantrapp #acrebooks #smallpressbooks #rangeofmotion #newfiction #caregiving
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Range of Motion is officially out today. It took 10+ years. No matter how difficult the writing was, deep down I knew a character like my twin brother needed to exist. Don’t give up, kids. @acrebooks.bsky.social #briantrapp #acrebooks #smallpressbooks #rangeofmotion #newfiction #caregiving
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Mark your calendars, #Cincinnati! Thurs, Oct. 16 | 6:00pm! The Mercantile Library. THREE Acre Authors, One Evening: with @thejs3.bsky.social, Brock Clarke & @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! Link for details! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky 📚🖊️
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Three Authors, One Evening: An Evening with James Stewart III, Brock Clarke & Brian Trapp | October 16, 2025 | The Mercantile Library
Join us for an evening of fiction with a trio of authors presenting their new books from UC’s Acre Books.
About Defiant Acts
James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-cl...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Mark your calendars, #Cincinnati! Thurs, Oct. 16 | 6:00pm! The Mercantile Library. THREE Acre Authors, One Evening: with @thejs3.bsky.social, Brock Clarke & @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social! Link for details! 🎉🎉🎉 #fiction #booksky 📚🖊️
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With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature By Annie Aguiar buff.ly/s9EbVSf
With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature
Brian Trapp’s novel “Range of Motion” isn’t directly about his brother Danny, who had cerebral palsy. But it’s an effort to write more characters like him into literary fiction.
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October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature By Annie Aguiar buff.ly/s9EbVSf
Thanks to Eugene's local paper for featuring a profile on me and the novel. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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With new novel, author writes his disabled brother into literature
Brian Trapp’s novel “Range of Motion” isn’t directly about his brother Danny, who had cerebral palsy. But it’s an effort to write more characters like him into literary fiction.
lookouteugene-springfield.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thanks to Eugene's local paper for featuring a profile on me and the novel. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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Brian Trapp
Quarter After Eight Reading Series
Monday, October 20
6:30 PM
Brian Trapp, an OU alum, is the author of the forthcoming novel Range of Motion and he's being generous enough to share some of his work with us before the release of the book later that week.
Quarter After Eight Reading Series
Monday, October 20
6:30 PM
Brian Trapp, an OU alum, is the author of the forthcoming novel Range of Motion and he's being generous enough to share some of his work with us before the release of the book later that week.
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Brian Trapp
Quarter After Eight Reading Series
Monday, October 20
6:30 PM
Brian Trapp, an OU alum, is the author of the forthcoming novel Range of Motion and he's being generous enough to share some of his work with us before the release of the book later that week.
Quarter After Eight Reading Series
Monday, October 20
6:30 PM
Brian Trapp, an OU alum, is the author of the forthcoming novel Range of Motion and he's being generous enough to share some of his work with us before the release of the book later that week.
Thanks to the Masters Review and the great @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social for publishing an interview with me about Range of Motion. I hold forth on writing disability, fiction vs memoir, and novel inspiration. @acrebooks.bsky.social
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October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to the Masters Review and the great @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social for publishing an interview with me about Range of Motion. I hold forth on writing disability, fiction vs memoir, and novel inspiration. @acrebooks.bsky.social
mastersreview.com/a-conversati...
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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
September 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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
Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it!
@acrebooks.bsky.social
@acrebooks.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy to receive this wonderful endorsement from the great @elizabethmck.bsky.social, author of one of my favorite novels, The Portable Veblen. When I meet someone who also loves that book, it’s like a delightful secret we share. Please read it!
@acrebooks.bsky.social
@acrebooks.bsky.social
One month until Range of Motion officially drops from @acrebooks.bsky.social. Happy to share this fantastic blurb from Jonathan Evison. I love his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which was made into a @netflix.com film starring Paul Rudd.
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One month until Range of Motion officially drops from @acrebooks.bsky.social. Happy to share this fantastic blurb from Jonathan Evison. I love his novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which was made into a @netflix.com film starring Paul Rudd.
Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social) is about one month away from being published. Happy to have a blurb from the wonderful @matjohnson.bsky.social. Check out his hilarious novels: Pym and Loving Day and Invisible Things.
September 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social) is about one month away from being published. Happy to have a blurb from the wonderful @matjohnson.bsky.social. Check out his hilarious novels: Pym and Loving Day and Invisible Things.
First blurb for RANGE OF MOTION from a writer I very much admire:
August 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
First blurb for RANGE OF MOTION from a writer I very much admire:
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Transforming perceptions of #disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail, @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's RANGE OF MOTION is wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic. Preorder this #novel (forthcoming Oct.) at
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
Range of Motion
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them. T...
press.uchicago.edu
July 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Transforming perceptions of #disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail, @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's RANGE OF MOTION is wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic. Preorder this #novel (forthcoming Oct.) at
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
Feeling really good about my NEA chances this year! Fingers crossed! I'm just gonna to check my email real quick...
August 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Feeling really good about my NEA chances this year! Fingers crossed! I'm just gonna to check my email real quick...
About 3 more months until the book is out from @acrebooks.bsky.social! Preorder if you like potty-mouthed and inappropriate AAC devices. #aac #disability
Transforming perceptions of #disability and interdependence through tender attention to detail, @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social's RANGE OF MOTION is wrenching, beautiful, and sharply comic. Preorder this #novel (forthcoming Oct.) at
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 📚🎉
Range of Motion
A tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood. Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them. T...
press.uchicago.edu
July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
About 3 more months until the book is out from @acrebooks.bsky.social! Preorder if you like potty-mouthed and inappropriate AAC devices. #aac #disability
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Today's Read: How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona. Just came out. It's about a woman who takes her dog for a walk and doesn't come back.
The rare literary thriller that success both as literature and as a thriller.
The rare literary thriller that success both as literature and as a thriller.
November 14, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Today's Read: How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona. Just came out. It's about a woman who takes her dog for a walk and doesn't come back.
The rare literary thriller that success both as literature and as a thriller.
The rare literary thriller that success both as literature and as a thriller.
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Call for submissions! 🗣️
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
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The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
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May 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Call for submissions! 🗣️
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit
The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today!
theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit
Writer Friends: Is anyone planning on proposing panels for AWP Baltimore 2026? I'd love to be part of a panel on : publishing with an independent press, writing caregiving or disability, autobiographical writing, fiction vs memoir, novel-that-takes-forever-to-write.
May 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Writer Friends: Is anyone planning on proposing panels for AWP Baltimore 2026? I'd love to be part of a panel on : publishing with an independent press, writing caregiving or disability, autobiographical writing, fiction vs memoir, novel-that-takes-forever-to-write.
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Personal Narrative's submission window is extended! You now have until 5/4 to submit your longform personal narrative essays. Submit: buff.ly/VDL6a2k
April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Personal Narrative's submission window is extended! You now have until 5/4 to submit your longform personal narrative essays. Submit: buff.ly/VDL6a2k