About Avitus B. Carle

Avitus B(uckhaulter) Carle lives and writes outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut flash fiction collection, These Worn Bodies, was the winner of the 2023 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fractured Lit., X-R-A-Y Litmag, The Commuter (Electric Lit.), The Rumpus, Waxwing, JMWW, and Shondaland, among others.

These Worn Bodies

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From Moon City Press

In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bold, and unexpected ways.

Also By Avitus B. Carle

  • "Stepmother, Not Mother, Mother"

    Published in Fractured Lit.

    November 25, 2024

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  • "Lollipop Kiss"

    Published in JMWW

    September 20, 2024

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  • "We Might've Been Kings"

    Published in JMWW

    September 20, 2024

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  • “You Work at the Worst Diner in Existence That's Always Open for Business”

    Published in X-R-A-Y Litmag

    September 9, 2024

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