Contributors
Alex Townsend is a writer, a day-dreamer, and a really cool person. She also has depression. It's okay. She's still cool and you're still cool. You'll make it. She believes in you.7 Articles
Sara Polsky is the author of the YA novel This Is How I Find Her, published by Albert Whitman in fall 2013 and named a Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2014. Her non-fiction has appeared in Poets and Writers, the Forward, and other publications.6 Articles
Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2013), the story of a eighth grader with undiagnosed Asperger’s and an X-Men obsession, in search of a friend and her own special power. Lyn has also written the historical YA novel Gringolandia (Curbstone, 2009) and its forthcoming companion, Surviving Santiago (Running Press, 2015) and translated the picture book The World in a Second (Enchanted Lion, 2015) by Isabel Minhós Martins and Bernardo Carvalho from Portuguese to English.7 Articles
Jessica Mulqueen is currently writing a YA fantasy novel. She also works at TERI, Inc.’s therapeutic equestrian center for students with developmental disabilities. In her spare time she reads voraciously, swims, and spends too much time on the internet. Jessica lives in San Diego County in southern California.3 Articles
I have more pictures of my cats than I do friends on Facebook. I tie my shoelaces in bunny ears because I never learned how to loop, swoop & pull. I have this problem where I fall in love with fictional characters. I like to write about oppression, resistance and existence. Make me laugh and I'll love you forever. One day I will use my mutant Asperger's superpowers to set the world on fire.3 Articles
Randi lives in Arizona, where she tries not to melt before November. She has taken her life-altering disability as an opportunity to focus on her love of writing, hoping it becomes lucrative one day to help support her book habit. Her favorite hobby is attempting to read more books than she did the previous year.3 Articles
Elise Phalen was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 11 and is more than happy to answer your questions about it. After graduating from Boston University in 2014, she worked at the Cambridge Public Library before moving to Washington, DC and her current job in graduate school admissions. In August, she will be leaving the world of higher education behind to attend the University of Arizona law school and hopes to specialize in healthcare law and then try to save the world.3 Articles
Marieke Nijkamp is a storyteller, dreamer, globe-trotter, geek. This is Where it Ends, her debut YA, will be released by Sourcebooks Fire. She wants to grow up to be a time traveler.11 Articles
S.L. Huang is a speculative fiction writer, book-lover, and extreme nerd. Her debut novel, Zero Sum Game, and its sequel, Half Life, are about a snarky antiheroine who can do math really, really fast. You can find S.L. Huang on Twitter, where she talks mostly about things that have nothing to do with cancer. For the record, her lasting lament about the whole childhood cancer thing is that the radiation didn't give her superpowers.3 Articles
Elizabeth was unschooled growing up and largely raised by books. She is currently editing an anthology with contributions by adult-diagnosed autistic people, and writing speculative fiction about Jewish magic and folklore and about extra-neurodiverse fictional cultures. She does disability advocacy on Twitter, where she co-mods the #autchat and #autismmeans hashtag events.3 Articles