Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer, educator and disability/transformative justice worker of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including most recently, co-edited with Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, Tonguebreaker and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. They are the 2020 recipient of the Lambda Foundation's Jeanne Cørdova Prize in Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, recognizing "a lifetime of work documenting the complexity of queer experience" and are also the recipient of the groundbreaking 2020 US Artists Disability Futures Fellowship. They live in Toronto.

Apr 2, 2020
Cover of Beyond Survival

Beyond Survival

May 14, 2019
Cover of Tonguebreaker

Tonguebreaker

Oct 30, 2018
Cover of Care Work

Care Work

Jan 4, 2016
Cover of Dirty River

Dirty River

Mar 20, 2015
Cover of Bodymap

Bodymap

Sep 30, 2011
Cover of Love Cake

Love Cake