Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies. She has led workshops at the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas, and Davidson College on disability representation, identity, and community. She also runs the Instagram platform @sitting_pretty, where she crafts "mini-memoirs" to contribute nuance to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture. She lives in a tiny, old house with her fussy family of tenderhearted snuggles.