Project Contributor,
John Lee Clark is a DeafBlind poet, essayist, historian, translator, and an actor in the most thrilling development in DeafBlind history, the Protactile movement. He is a 2021-2023 Bush Leadership Fellow, a core member of Protactile Language Interpreting National Education Center, and a research consultant with the Reciprocity Lab at the University of Chicago.
He is a recipient of a Disability Futures Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and USA Artists, and the recipient of a National Magazine Award for his essay “Tactile Art” as well as the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine. His book of poems How to Communicate, long listed for the National Book Award, and Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays, were both published by W.W. Norton.