Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a mixed-blood, middle-aged nonbinary femme disabled and autistic writer, disability and transformative justice cultural and movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician ascent. A crip web weaver, couch and porch witch, they are the author and/or co-editor of nine books, including Beyond Survival ((with Ejeris Dixon), Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River, and Bodymap. A Lambda Literary Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times, they are the winner of Lambda's 2020 Jean Cordova Award "honoring a lifetime of work documenting the complexities of queer of color/femme/disabled experience" and are a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T'karonto and Oakland, they currently make home in South Seattle, Duwamish territories. They are an adaptive trike rider and a triple grand water trine. Their newest book, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, will be published in fall 2022.
Books by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Future Is Disabled
Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
Our Work Is Everywhere
An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Bridge of Flowers
Tonguebreaker
Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice
Dirty River
A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Bodymap
Love Cake
