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 Personal Homepage Latest Articles All Andrew Leibs's Articles Contact me Recent Blog PostEconomy Challenges Disabled People’s Ingenuity Accessing Recreation
Economic downturns are especially hard on the disabled, but there are steps one can take to ensure recreation options remain. 
Andrew Leibs is Suite101’s Feature Writer for Accessible Recreation. He is a longtime chronicler of the disability movement with particular interests in adaptive sports, blind literacy, and perceptions of the disabled in culture. He is the award-winning author of two books and over 2,800 articles. He’s written on adaptive sports and recreation for numerous publications, including The Boston Globe, Dialogue, The Ragged Edge, Sports, Etc., and UniversalSports.com. He’s the author of Sports and Games of the Renaissance, and edits Greenwood Press’s Sports and Games Through History series. His Outward Bound essay “Life Cycles” appeared in the 2004 collection Wilderlust: Blindness and Nature. He won a New England Press Association feature-writing award and was named 1997 New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year (for the New Hampshire Union Leader) by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His first book, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader (Greenwood Press) appeared in 1999; his writings on blind literacy have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Careers and the Disabled, and RFB&D Teacher's Aide. Leibs is also an authority on the cultural portrayals of the genetic condition of albinism. His essays have appeared in Kaleidoscope, The San Francisco Examiner, and NOAH News, and he has presented at national conferences. In 1997, he wrote a declaration on albinism in culture for Johnny and Edgar Winter’s defamation lawsuit against DC Comics. 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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