Blind Authors

This directory lists 60 authors who are blind or have low vision, along with selected books by each. It is meant as a resource for aspiring blind authors and as a way to find and reach the writers listed.

This is one of three companion directories, alongside Blind Developers and Blind Presenters, and all three are merged in Blind Creators. A related directory, Blind Books, turns this one around: it lists every qualifying book by these authors, each with its category, formats, and year, plus statistics on the whole collection.

An author is included here when every one of the following is true:

Up to three books are shown per author, newest first, each with its year where known, while Blind Books shows them all. A poetry title must be a substantial, sole-authored collection rather than a few poems posted online. Each entry ends with a “Profiles:” line — the author’s website, Amazon or National Braille Press page, LinkedIn, or Wikipedia, listed alphabetically by label — and, where one could be verified, a link to an accessible edition at the National Library Service (NLS) or Bookshare.

Authors are listed alphabetically by last name, with the books grouped by kind in an appendix.

This directory is English-language in scope: it relies on books and sources that can be read and verified in English. Blind authors writing in other languages are not represented here.

Table of Contents

Authors (Alphabetical by Last Name)

Peter Altschul

A mediator and organizational consultant. Profiles: Website

Riding Elephants: Creating Common Ground Where Contention Rules (2021)

Brief essays arguing that common ground at home, at work, and in faith communities comes from guiding our unruly emotions with patience and deliberate thought. Format: Kindle, Apple Books, and Kobo.

Breaking It Down and Connecting the Dots: Creating Common Ground Where Contention Rules (2017)

Essays on finding common ground and working through conflict in a divided world. Format: Kindle.

Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind (2012)

A memoir of building a career and finding love as a man blind since birth, alongside the five guide dogs who shared the journey. Format: Kindle and NOOK.

Taylor Arndt

A blind developer and accessibility specialist; Chief Operating Officer at Techopolis. Profiles: LinkedIn, Website.

Getting Started with the MacBook Neo (2026)

A hands-on setup guide for blind and low-vision users of Apple’s MacBook Neo, walking through configuring a new machine from first boot. Format: Gumroad.

Amy Bovaird

A Christian writer and memoirist who taught overseas for decades and writes with humor about sight loss and mobility. Profiles: Website

Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith (2014)

A memoir of resisting and then embracing white-cane training as retinitis pigmentosa takes her sight. Format: Independently published.

Laura Bratton

A keynote speaker and coach who became totally blind in her teens from a rod-and-cone dystrophy. Profiles: LinkedIn, Website

Harnessing Courage: Overcoming Adversity with Grit and Gratitude (2016)

A memoir of the first thirty years of her life and how she met vision loss and other adversity with grit and gratitude.

Tristen Breitenfeldt

A certified accessibility tester in Yakima, Washington, and a guide dog handler since 2006. Profiles: Website

The Blind Detective (2024)

Four mysteries for readers aged 10 to 12, in which a blind police detective, his guide dog Missy, and a friend solve cases while opening conversations about blindness and guide dog etiquette. Format: Kindle.

Shelly Brisbin

A technology journalist and podcaster. Profiles: Website

iOS Access for All (2025)

A thorough guide to running the iPhone and iPad with VoiceOver and the other built-in accessibility features. Format: EPUB.

Molly Burke

A content creator and public speaker, and the first blind creator to pass one million YouTube subscribers. Profiles: Website, Wikipedia

Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice (2025)

A candid memoir about identity, self-acceptance, and being seen in a world built for the sighted. Format: Audiobook read by the author; also in print.

Anthony R. Candela

A retired vocational-rehabilitation leader and athlete who went blind from retinitis pigmentosa, and a prolific author and essayist. Profiles: Goodreads, Website

What Should Not Remain Silent (2024)

A collection of personal essays written between 2021 and 2024, responding to the politics, pandemic, and public events of those years and tying them to wider themes. Format: Kindle.

Vision Dreams: A Parable (2019)

A dystopian science-fiction novella in which four companions chase their deepest wishes inside a fearful, hyper-vigilant society that hoards its resources for self-protection. Format: Kindle.

Stand Up or Sit Out: Memories and Musings of a Blind Wrestler, Runner, and All-Around Regular Guy (2019)

A memoir traversing a lifetime of challenges, from his slow trek to blindness to life as a scholar-athlete.

Kim Charlson

The first woman president of the American Council of the Blind and director of the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library. Profiles: LinkedIn

Drawing with Your Perkins Brailler (2009)

Step-by-step instructions for creating three dozen tactile pictures — shapes, animals, and seasonal themes — on a Perkins Brailler. Format: Braille or large print.

Ann Chiappetta

A poet and memoirist. Profiles: Website

Words of Life: Poems and Essays (2019)

Poems, essays, and flash fiction on nature, vision loss, family, and the writing life. Format: Kindle and Audible.

Follow Your Dog: A Story of Love and Trust (2017)

A memoir about the trust and partnership between a handler and her guide dogs. Format: Kindle.

Upwelling: Poems (2016)

Her debut poetry collection: 23 short, accessible poems on guide dogs, marriage, grief, and adjusting to blindness. Format: Kindle and audiobook.

Peggy Chong

A historian and author known as The Blind History Lady. Profiles: Amazon, Website

Don Mahoney: Television Star (2021)

A biography of a blind entertainer who kept his blindness secret through a long television career. Format: Also available as an ebook via Smashwords.

Karsten Ohnstad: I Wanted to Be a Teacher Just Like My Dad (2018)

A biography of a Minnesota boy who loses his sight over two years and must remake his path toward his dream of teaching, learning to trust himself as a blind man. Format: Smashwords ebook (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

John Swearingen: Know Your Place Blind Boy! (2017)

A biography of a man blinded at thirteen who battled prejudice to win an education, become a teacher, and champion quality schooling for all children in the American South after the Civil War. Format: Smashwords ebook (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

Belo Cipriani

A writer, publisher, and digital-inclusion strategist, and founder of the disability publishing house Oleb Books. Profiles: Wikipedia

Blind: A Memoir (2011)

An account of the two years of rehabilitation after a 2007 assault left him blind at twenty-six. Format: Oleb Books.

Naomi Cohn

A writer and teaching artist whose work explores vision loss, braille, and the natural world. Profiles: Website

The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight (2024)

An abecedarian memoir in brief essays and prose poems on losing her sight and learning braille as an adult. Format: Rose Metal Press.

Wendy S. David

A blind traveler and writer.

Sites Unseen: Traveling the World Without Sight (2010)

A travel memoir of seeing the world as a blind traveler, in the company of a series of guide dogs. Format: National Braille Press.

Judy Dixon

A longtime writer on access technology. Profiles: Website.

Designing Documents for Appearance: Using a Screen Reader to Create Eye-Catching Newsletters, Flyers, Certificates, and More (2022)

How to use a screen reader to create visually polished newsletters, flyers, certificates, and similar documents. Format: National Braille Press.

The Power of PowerPoint: Using a Screen Reader to Create Attention-Grabbing Presentations (2022)

How to build attention-grabbing presentations using a screen reader. Format: National Braille Press.

31 Cool Things You Can Do with Your iPhone: From Fun, to Practical, to Entertaining (2019)

A collection of fun, practical, and entertaining things blind and low-vision users can do with an iPhone. Format: National Braille Press.

Anna Dresner

Writes accessible-technology books for National Braille Press. Profiles: LinkedIn

Computers You Can Talk To: Siri, Alexa, Google Now, and Cortana

An introduction to using voice assistants on phones, computers, and smart speakers. Format: DOCX, National Braille Press.

Lucy Edwards

A broadcaster, content creator, and disability activist. Profiles: Website, Wikipedia

Blind Not Broken: Your Guide to Turning Loss and Grief into Happiness (2024)

Part memoir, part guide to moving through grief toward independence after sudden sight loss. Format: Audiobook and print.

David L. Faucheux

Profiles: Website

Across Two Novembers: A Year in the Life of a Blind Bibliophile (2016)

A year-long diary woven through with books, food, music, and memory. Format: Kindle.

Michael Feir

A Canadian author and broadcaster who gives his books away for free. Profiles: Blog

Personal Power: The iOS Edition (2025)

A wide-ranging guide to getting the most from an iPhone or iPad as a totally blind user. Format: Free ebook, third edition.

Chad E. Foster

A corporate executive and motivational speaker, and the first blind graduate of the Harvard Business School leadership program. Profiles: Website

Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary (2021)

An autobiographical account of turning the loss of sight into a competitive strength in business and life. Format: Kindle, audiobook, and print.

Tony Gebhard

A totally blind musician and assistive technology professional from Michigan who teaches screen reader users. Profiles: GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

No Sight Required — The Blind User’s Guide to AI (2026)

A practical guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. Format: Kindle and paperback.

Haben Girma

An attorney, disability-rights advocate, and keynote speaker. Profiles: LinkedIn, Website, Wikipedia

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (2019)

A memoir of a refugee family, Harvard Law, and a life spent making the world more accessible. Format: Kindle, audiobook, and print.

M. Leona Godin

A writer, performer, and educator. Profiles: Website

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (2021)

A blend of memoir and cultural history tracing how blindness has shaped art, language, and ideas. Format: Pantheon. Accessible editions: NLS

Sherry Gomes

A novelist who writes contemporary inspirational fiction. Profiles: Goodreads, Website

Haven (2021)

A contemporary novel about a blind mother building a new life and finding love in a small town. Format: Kindle.

Sanford D. Greenberg

An entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist working to end blindness. Profiles: Website

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life (2020)

A memoir of going blind at nineteen and building a life of achievement through enduring friendship. Format: Kindle, audiobook, and print.

John B. Grimes

A writer and podcaster who lost his sight to bacterial meningitis in college. Profiles: Podcast, Website

Destiny Is Debatable: A Memoir of Meningitis, Losing Sight, and the Love I Didn’t See Coming (2026)

A candid, darkly funny memoir about surviving meningitis, going blind, and rebuilding a life and a family.

Christine Ha

A chef, writer, and television host; the first blind winner of MasterChef. Profiles: Website, Wikipedia

Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food (2013)

A cookbook of Vietnamese and American comfort food, woven through with personal narrative. Format: Kindle.

Brian Hartgen

A blind UK assistive-technology trainer and JAWS scripter who co-owns Hartgen Consultancy and presents radio on Team-FM. Profiles: Bluesky, Team-FM, Website, X.

Chrome Plated Revisited: Using Google Chrome with JAWS for Windows (2026)

A 2026 text training book, in Word and HTML, showing JAWS for Windows users how to browse efficiently with Google Chrome, from tabs, forms, and tables to extensions, passwords, and AI features. Format: Online text, Hartgen Consultancy.

Time to Go Zoom Revisited (2026)

A roughly 550-page, keyboard-driven text book teaching JAWS for Windows users to join, host, schedule, record, and manage Zoom Workplace meetings, webinars, and Zoom Phone. Format: Online text, Hartgen Consultancy.

Winning Teams Version 3

A fully rewritten text training book, in Word and HTML, on using Microsoft Teams efficiently with JAWS for Windows, covering chats, channels, meetings, calls, and files. Format: Online text, Hartgen Consultancy.

Mary Hiland

A writer, retired nonprofit leader, and longtime guide dog handler. Profiles: Website

Insight Out: One Blind Woman’s View of Her Life (2019)

A frank, warm memoir of the everyday strategies and experiences of living without sight. Format: Kindle and print.

The Bumpy Road to Assisted Living: A Daughter’s Memoir (2017)

A daughter’s account, as an only and blind child, of moving her mother into assisted living. Format: Ebook and print.

Donna W. Hill

A songwriter and novelist. Profiles: Goodreads, Website

The Heart of Applebutter Hill (2013)

A young-adult adventure novel with a blind heroine and her guide dog at its center. Format: Kindle.

James Tate Hill

A novelist and memoirist, and a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Profiles: Website

Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir (2021)

A candid, often funny memoir about being declared legally blind at sixteen and spending fifteen years hiding it. Format: W. W. Norton.

Deborah Kendrick

A columnist and journalist on disability. Profiles: LinkedIn

Health Care Professionals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

Profiles of blind and low-vision people working across the health professions. Format: Available in electronic formats, including on Bookshare.

Navigating Healthcare When All They Can See Is That You Can’t

A guide to advocating for yourself in medical settings as a blind or low-vision patient. Format: Braille, Word, or large print.

When Your Ears Can’t Help You See: Strategies for Blind and Low Vision Individuals with Hearing Loss

Techniques and technologies for navigating blindness alongside hearing loss. Format: Braille, BRF, or Word.

Deborah Kent

A prolific author of fiction and nonfiction for young readers and adults.

Elizabeth Blackwell: Physician and Health Educator (2004)

A biography of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Format: Kindle.

Reuben Kigame

A Kenyan gospel musician, scholar, and theologian, blind since early childhood, and a longtime disability-rights advocate. Profiles: Website

Christian Apologetics Through African Eyes (2018)

A wide-ranging reference work defending the Christian faith from an African perspective. Format: Posterity Publishers.

Robert Kingett

A journalist. Profiles: HuffPost

Off the Grid: Living Blind Without the Internet (2015)

A firsthand account of going without the internet as a blind man. Format: Kindle.

David Kingsbury

An assistive-technology instructor at the Carroll Center for the Blind. Profiles: LinkedIn

The Windows Screen Reader Primer: All the Basics and More (2024)

A teaching guide for JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator users covering Windows, Office, browsers, and more. Format: Free in Word and ePub.

Georgina Kleege

A writer and disability studies scholar who lectures in English at the University of California, Berkeley. Profiles: Wikipedia

More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art (2018)

An exploration of blindness and visual art: how blindness is represented, how blind artists work, and how museums can offer genuine access. Format: Oxford University Press.

Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006)

A work of creative nonfiction addressed to Helen Keller, reckoning with the myth built around her and what it has meant for other blind people. Format: Ebook.

Ryan Knighton

A Canadian writer and teacher who lost his sight to retinitis pigmentosa. Profiles: ABC BookWorld

C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark (2010)

His second memoir, a funny and harrowing account of his first year of fatherhood as a blind dad. Format: Kindle.

Cockeyed: A Memoir (2006)

An irreverent, tragicomic memoir of his fifteen-year descent into blindness. Format: Penguin.

Stephen Kuusisto

A poet and University Professor at Syracuse University. Profiles: Website, Wikipedia

Old Horse, What Is to Be Done? (2020)

A poetry collection of spare, sound-driven lyrics moving through memory, aging, and the natural world. Format: Kindle.

Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey (2018)

A lyrical memoir about independence and the bond with a first guide dog. Format: Simon & Schuster.

Letters to Borges (2013)

Poems addressed to the blind writer Jorge Luis Borges as a traveler’s letters from shifting cities, where blindness opens onto invented landscapes. Format: Kindle.

Bobbi LaChance

A romance novelist.

The Journey: A Life in Three Parts (2013)

A romance following Carrie, a divorced nurse’s aide and mother of two, whose life changes when she meets a charming newspaper reporter with political ambitions. Format: Kobo (EPUB).

Cobwebs (2012)

A novel. Format: Kindle.

Andrew Leland

A writer and audio producer. Profiles: Website

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023)

A Pulitzer-finalist memoir of going blind that doubles as an exploration of the culture and history of blindness. Format: Penguin Press. Wikipedia: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Dean Martineau

A screen-reader trainer. Profiles: Website

Get Cracking with Chrome for Windows (2019)

A practical guide to using the Chrome browser efficiently with a screen reader. Format: DOCX.

Windows Keyboard Power User Guide (2019)

Keyboard commands and customizations across Windows, JAWS, and Microsoft Word for faster, more effective screen-reader use. Format: DOCX.

Jamal Mazrui

Profiles: Amazon, GitHub, LinkedIn

Blind Vibe Coding: Building Apps Nonvisually with AI (2026)

Sixteen hands-on tutorials for screen reader users who want to build their own apps with help from AI, from a talking timer in a chat window to Windows programs, NVDA add-ons, browser extensions, and phone apps. Format: Kindle.

Strange Truths: Objective Stories that Challenge Our Understanding of the World (2026)

An omnibus that gathers the author’s Strange Truths series of accessible books on science, history, and the limits of human knowledge. Format: Kindle.

Mastery in Nonvisual Accomplishment: Among the Greatest Blind Persons of All Time (2026)

Profiles of some of the greatest blind achievers across many fields. Format: Kindle.

Steven B. Mendelsohn

An attorney who works in disability law. Profiles: Amazon

People With Disabilities and Employment Law: Recent Developments, Emerging Issues, and What They Mean in Everyday Life (2016)

An overview of disability employment law and what recent changes mean in daily life. Format: Kindle.

Joshua A. Miele

A scientist, designer, and accessibility innovator, and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. Profiles: Wikipedia

Connecting Dots: A Blind Life (2025)

A memoir of curiosity and invention, tracing a path through science, activism, and the disability rights movement. Format: Kindle, audiobook, and print.

Selina Mills

An award-winning journalist and broadcaster, legally blind, who has reported for Reuters, The Daily Telegraph, and the BBC. Profiles: City Lights

Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness (2023)

A personal, often witty cultural history of blindness in the West, woven through her own loss of sight. Format: Bloomsbury Academic.

Jalil Mortazavi

Profiles: Website

The Mystery of America: What I Learned and Love About this Country (2018)

Reflections from an immigrant on what he came to admire about the United States. Format: Kindle.

Jonathan Mosen

A broadcaster and author of many technology guides; host of the National Federation of the Blind’s Access On podcast. Profiles: Website

iOS Without the Eye

A comprehensive guide to operating the iPhone and iPad without sight. Format: EPUB.

Become an Amadeus Pro Maestro

An audio tutorial that teaches blind Mac users to record, edit, and produce audio with the Amadeus Pro multitrack editor using VoiceOver. Format: DAISY and MP3 audiobook.

Kim Nova

A blindness assistive-technology instructor and writer at Mystic Access; she writes under the name Kim Loftis. Profiles: National Braille Press, Website

Dating in the Digital Age: An Accessible Journey for Finding Love Online (2019)

A practical guide to online dating as a blind or low-vision user, covering self-presentation, safety, disclosure, and the accessibility of major dating platforms. Format: DAISY, eBraille, or Word; National Braille Press.

James H. Omvig

A rehabilitation leader and former federal official. Profiles: Goodreads

Freedom for the Blind: The Secret is Empowerment (2002)

An argument that strong training and high expectations are the real keys to independence. Format: University of Arkansas Press; electronic editions available, including on Bookshare.

Ann K. Parsons

Profiles: Website

The Demmies: A Novel (2017)

A science-fiction novel. Format: Kindle.

J. Pinto

Profiles: Goodreads, Website

Braided Love (2023)

A young-adult novel about two girls discovering what family means over a summer on a Colorado ranch. Format: Audiobook and ebook.

Daddy Won’t Let Mom Drive the Car: True Tales of Parenting in the Dark (2019)

Warm, funny short vignettes about raising a sighted daughter as a blind mother. Format: Audible audiobook.

The Bright Side of Darkness (2015)

A novel. Format: Kindle.

Maud Rowell

A freelance journalist and writer in London who went blind at nineteen and now writes to educate others about sight loss. Profiles: 404 Ink

Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness (2021)

A brief, wide-ranging primer on blindness across visibility, accessibility, and culture, drawn from her own life and from blind pioneers through history. Format: 404 Ink.

Adrian Spratt

A lawyer and novelist. Profiles: Website

Caroline (2021)

A novel about a young blind lawyer in 1980s New York and a love that shapes him. Format: Ebook and audiobook.

Maribel Steel

An Australian author, speaker, and memoirist who is legally blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Profiles: Website

Blindness for Beginners: A Renewed Vision of the Possible (2018)

Part memoir, part practical guide to adjusting emotionally and practically to vision loss. Format: Spring Studio.

Red Szell

A British crime novelist, broadcaster, and climber who is registered blind from retinitis pigmentosa. Profiles: Website

The Blind Man of Hoy: A True Story (2014)

An account of becoming the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot sea stack off Orkney. Format: Sandstone Press.

David S. Tatel

A retired judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Profiles: Wikipedia

Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice (2024)

A memoir of a distinguished legal career and of coming to terms with blindness. Format: Kindle, audiobook, and print.

Abbie Johnson Taylor

A novelist, poet, and memoirist. Profiles: Website

Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories (2025)

A collection of twenty-five short stories, most set in Wyoming, about ordinary people navigating love, loss, and upheaval. Format: Smashwords ebook (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me (2021)

A novel in which a teenager, told a family secret by her grandmother with dementia, sets out to find her biological father and reshapes the whole family. Format: Smashwords ebook (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared For the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds (2016)

A memoir of love and caregiving through her husband’s disabling illness. Format: Kindle.

Erik Weihenmayer

An adventurer and athlete, the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. Profiles: Website, Wikipedia

Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See (2001)

A bestselling memoir of growing up blind and climbing toward the world’s Seven Summits. Format: Dutton.

Kristen Witucki

A novelist and teacher of blind students. Profiles: Amazon

Outside Myself (2018)

A novel in two voices about a blind teenage girl and an older blind man who meet through a library for the blind. Format: Wyatt-MacKenzie.

The Transcriber (2013)

A short novel narrated by the younger brother of a blind girl. Format: GemmaMedia.

Books by Category

The same books grouped by kind, ordered by title within each group. For every book by these authors, grouped by category, year, and author, see Blind Books.

Memoir and personal narrative

Fiction

Poetry

Technology and how-to guides

Biography

Essays and commentary

Disability, rehabilitation, and law

History and culture of blindness

Science, history, and ideas

Food and cooking