Willy Conley, born profoundly deaf, is an award-winning writer and photographer whose nine books include Photographic Memories, Plays of Our Own, Listening Through the Bone, and The Deaf Heart. Early in his career he worked as a medical photographer at leading hospitals in the U.S. before earning certification as a Registered Biological Photographer. He is professor emeritus of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University, the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, in Washington, D.C.
For more info about his work, please visit willyconley.com
Willy’s photo essay, “Human Signs”, was published in Midnight Mind Number Ten.