Call Me Avitus

Avitus B(uckhaulter) Carle’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Commuter (Electric Lit.), The Rumpus, Waxwing, JMWW, and Shondaland, among others. Her work was selected for 2023 Wigleaf Top 50, 2024 and 2022 Best Small Fictions anthology, 2022 Best of the Net anthology and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Prize, and the Best Microfictions anthology.

Avitus received an MA from West Chester University and MFA from the Naslund-Mann School of Creative Writing. She lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she writes when not observing the lives of groundhogs, deer, foxes, and birds.

These Worn Bodies is her first collection of flash fiction.