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Recommended Authors and Artists
Cait Gordon is a Canadian autistic, disabled, and queer author of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. Her latest novel is the award-nominated, disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! She also co-edited the award-nominated Nothing Without Us and the award-winning Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies.
Dianna Gunn is an author of fantasy and science fiction with strong horror elements. Her first full-length novel, Moonshadow’s Guardian, was released in 2018, with the sequel set to arrive in spring 2023.
She also runs the Weeknight Writers Group, a social enterprise dedicated to creating accessible educational and community supports for writers, including the #WeeknightWriters Twitter chat on Thursdays at 7PM EST.
Jamieson is a number-one bestselling author—he likes to tell people that a lot—and writes in many different genres. Jamieson is also an accomplished artist. He works in mixed media, charcoal, acrylic and oil paints. He is also something of an amateur photographer and poet. He is also a Tarot reader.
He currently lives in Ottawa Ontario Canada with his husband Michael and their cat, Anakin who they swear has Jedi powers.
Carmen is an illustrator and author in SF/F/Furry. Their short stories, essays, and artwork appear in fanzines, anthologies, e-zines, literary journals, and digital lit magazines. They are currently posting a longtime comic idea [in draft mode] on Instagram titled “Summer to Winter”, which they are also revising/editing digitally to post on other platforms. “Summer to Winter” is a furry, romantic-comedy, slice-of-life webcomic.
Toy Tangents-MightyMax Toys and Porcelain Piggy
Toy collectors and thrift enthusiasts Max and Porcelain share their finds, travels and fun through their YouTube channel.
(He/They) is a disabled survivor of metastatic synovial sarcoma, a story chronicled in the memoir, Just Breathe: My Journey Through Cancer and Back. Since then, he has concentrated on writing speculative fiction, in particular, queer-themed space opera, and his short fiction has appeared in the anthologies North of Infinity II, Desolate Places, Ruins Metropolis, and Nothing Without Us Too. His first novel, Chasing Cold, was released in 2012, followed by the books in the Maverick Heart Cycle: Soul’s Blood (2016), Gatecrasher (2017), A Congress of Ships (2019) and in 2022, Ghost Light Burn. He has been a frequent guest on podcasts and panels, passionately advocating for lived experience queer and disability narratives in stories of the future. They are also an avid black and white photographer, with two of their photos appearing in an installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario. They are also working on a book compiling their intimate and immediate photos captured on the streets of Toronto, where they currently reside.
The artist, Sylvia Hahn, once told Jody, “Paint what you know, paint what you love”. She has used her advice like a mantra in her artistic life.
Jody is an artist/illustrator working in traditional watercolours. Her paintings have been used by interior designers, set decoration by CBS, greeting card companies and private collections worldwide. Recently, her attention to detail has served her well in bringing some beloved characters to life, including the Muppets, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and He-Man.
Sam Chiarelli, author of Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey (Books By Hippocampus), is a lifelong dinophile and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. His essays have appeared in Longridge Review, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere. He has dug for fossils in Colorado, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Lisa Macafee (Affirming Neurodiversity)
Lisa Macafee (they/she) is a community college counselor sourcing resources for their students. She is also autistic, gendervague/nonbinary, and Pan/greysexual and has two autistic children.
Lisa is a passionate believer that education can open doors for people financially, socially, and personally. They are working on their doctoral project on the intersection of gender diversity and autism. Their many qualifications include: a Master’s degree in Educational Counseling, a PPS School Counseling Credential, a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, teaching credentials in Social Sciences, Health Sciences,
Autism Added Authorization, CTE/ROP Education and Child Development, a Certified Autism Specialist, and an AA from community college.
The Spoonie Authors Network is a community initiative devoted to sharing the stories of disabled, d/Deaf, hard-of-hearing, Blind, visually impaired, neurodivergent authors—and/or authors who manage mental illness and/or chronic conditions—and educating abled people about what life is like for us as “Spoonie” creatives. Our goal is also to make it a resource hub for writers in our community by offering tips and links to sensitivity editors. (Visit our Resources menu to see what’s available so far!)