Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is a half-blind, half-deaf, half-Scandinavian horror & SFF writer who lives in New Jersey with her husband. Her fiction appears in many tabletop roleplaying games, including the upcoming Dead Scare, and Green Ronin's Blue Rose. She's also included in the Ghost in the Cogs anthology from Broken Eye Books. She has an MA in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College, and her non-fiction can be found on Feminist Sonar, and other places on the internet. When she's not scribbling out ideas, she can be found walking her hound dog on revolutionary war battlefields, and advocating for people with disabilities for better access to tabletop gaming.
These magical or futuristic “fixes” seem rooted in a discomfort with disability: many writers cannot (or don’t want to) imagine a life without sight and therefore create excuses to give their character equivalent sighted experiences.