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Andrew LeibsSuite101.com Contributing Writer 
Andrew Leibs is an award-winning writer who chronicles disability with particular interests in blind literacy, adaptive sports and recreation, and cultural perceptions of disabled persons. He is the author of two books and over 2,500 articles. His book, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader (Greenwood Press, 1999), was the first reading reference designed specifically for blind readers, especially students, and those who serve them. His essays and articles on blind literacy have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Careers and the Disabled, and RFB&D Teacher's Aide. He is the author of Sports and Games of the Renaissance, and edits Greenwood's Sports and Games Through History series. He won a New England Press Association feature-writing award for articles on Olympic distance runner Lynn Jennings and was named New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 1997. He has written about the Paralympics and adaptive sports for such publications as The Boston Globe, Dialogue Magazine, The Disability Rag, and Sports, Etc. Leibs is also an authority on the genetic condition of albinism. His essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in Kaleidoscope, The San Francisco Examiner, The Ragged Edge, and NOAH News and he has presented at conferences of the National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation. He holds a BA in English from St. John's University and an MA in writing from the University of New Hampshire. |
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