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Dear Blind Lady: Elsa Sjunneson
The Literary Arts Bookstore is excited to welcome author Elsa Sjunneson to celebrate her new book, Dear Blind Lady!
About the book:
In Dear Blind Lady, Deafblind author and disability rights activist Elsa Sjunneson delivers candid, funny, and practical guidance in an advice-column format. Written for disabled readers, allies, friends, family members, coworkers, and anyone who wants to build a more accessible and respectful world, this book tackles the questions nondisabled people may be afraid to ask—and disabled people are tired of answering.
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.
