AUTHOR

Hayden May Knight grew up deaf and gay in the middle of nowhere (Indiana). His writing has appeared in The Coil, Passengers Journal, Sensitive Content Magazine, and elsewhere, and won the 2018 Luminaire Award for Best Prose from Alternating Current Press. He works in disability rights advocacy and public policy, and lives with his scientist husband, Daniel.

Hayden writes to reckon with the dignity, fury, and joy of queer disabled life. He is currently writing his first novel.

DEAFNESS

Hayden developed progressive hearing loss at a young age, grew up in and out of deaf youth programs, and used a variety of assistive devices. Much of his public work advocates for language access for deaf and hard of hearing children and young people and aims to lend visibility to the diversity and complexity of Deaf identity and experience.