Elsa Sjunneson

Elsa Sjunneson is an award-winning Deafblind author, editor and journalist. Her debut nonfiction book, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, won the Washington State Book Award. Sjunneson has also won three Hugo Awards for writing and editing, an Aurora Award and a British Fantasy Award. She has been nominated for Hugo Awards nine times during her twelve-year writing career. Elsa has worked with Radiolab on the episode “The Helen Keller Exorcism.” PBS American Masters also launched a seven-minute documentary about Sjunneson. She has spent twenty years to fighting ableism in public schools. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, three children, and a Welsh Corgi.