[stylist] A New Member

[Shelley J. Alongi]

HI John I'm one of the quieter members on the list I don't contribute much I 
work away from home with Disney and so my time at home is spent writing. I'm 
in the process of setting up a new web site with one of the members on the 
list doing all the work I'm just supplying the work. And you can read my 
work on storymania.com for now. I also guest edit an issue of Slate and 
Style the NFB Writers' magazine. Merry Christmas Eve.
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updated Dec 7, 2008
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:27 PM
Subject: [stylist] A New Member


> Hello!
>
> I recently subscribed to this list, on the suggestion of Lori Stayer.  I
> would have liked to lurk for a while before introducing myself, but so far
> the list has been awfully quiet, too quiet even for someone who is deaf. 
> So
> I am going to dip my toes in here.
>
> To introduce myself briefly: My name is John Lee Clark, and I am a native 
> of
> St. Paul, Minnesota.  I was born deaf to an all-deaf family and so 
> American
> Sign Language is my first language.  I gradually became blind in early
> adolescence, just as my father did and my younger brother did.  After
> graduating from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf--on the other 
> bank
> of a former river across from where the Minnesota State Academy for the
> Blind is--I studied briefly at Gallaudet but jumped up in love, not fell,
> with Adrean, a deaf girl from North Carolina.  We got married fast and 
> moved
> to Minnesota.  We've been married for ten years now and have three sons.
> Currently, I am the head of a new service that provides accommodations for
> deafblind people using video relay service.
>
> As for my literary pursuits, my wife and I ran for six years a small press
> devoted to signing community literature both in English and ASL.  But it
> could not support our family, so we've had to turn to other sources of
> income.  I've published many essays, but it's through my poetry that I've
> won the most recognition--awards, grants, fellowships, all that. 
> Recently,
> my chapbook of poems, Suddenly Slow, came out from Handtype Press.  I've
> also done some independent scholarship on the literature of the deaf and
> deafblind communities.  In March, Gallaudet University Press will come out
> with Deaf American Poetry, which I edited and which is the first 
> definitive
> text of its kind, covering nearly two centuries of poetry by Deaf 
> Americans.
> I am nearly done with anther anthology, this time of writings by deafblind
> people all over the world and since 1820.
>
> This should suffice for now!  I would love to learn about who's on this
> list, so please do introduce yourself.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
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