Jennifer Natalya Fink 

Jennifer Natalya Fink is Core Faculty in Disability Studies and a professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of six books and founder of the Gorilla Press, a nonprofit promoting youth literacy through bookmaking. Fink is the winner of the Dana Award for the Novel and the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction, as well as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. First and foremost, she is a mother; the transformative experience of parenting her autistic daughter is the center of her work.