Alice Wong

Author, editor

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Represented by Julia Kardon

 

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the author of a bestselling memoir, Year of the Tiger; the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project—an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture; and the editor of the anthology Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century and Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults). Alice is also the host and coproducer of the Disability Visibility podcast and copartner in a number of collaborations such as #CripTheVote and Access Is Love. From 2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama.

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Selected Work:

 
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, featuring stylized flowers in the background. Editor: Alice Wong. Praise from Esmé Weijun Wang.
Cover of Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, featuring a red illustration of a tiger against a yellow background. Author: Alice Wong. Praise from Selma Blair.
Cover of Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories For Today, Adapted for Young Adults, featuring a brightly colored geometric background. Editor: Alice Wong.
Cover for Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, featuring a background of overlapping colored triangles. Editor: Alice Wong. Praise by Gaelynn Lea.