Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Writer and editor

Creative Work

Essays

I write about relationships, gender, power, families, interdependence, and impermanence. I’m a blatant Russophile.

“In another dream, my father burst into flames.” read Fertility Awareness in The Tahoma Literary Review
“love requires a familiarity with jagged edges” Read Love Bugs in Hobart
“The love that I had for my daughter was full of frustration, shot through with self-interest, riddled with compromise, weighed down by monotony.” Read Poop in Mutha Magazine
“Such is privilege, that state where you are granted the luxury of not understanding because everyone else will organize themselves around your misconceptions.” Read Virgin Lands in Pigeon Pages
“In March 2020, we New Yorkers began pushing the shared buttons in the shared
elevators of our shared buildings with our knuckles.” (Read my essay, “Exposed”, in this new collection of mama writing!