The Braille Encyclopedia Book Launch

Saturday, October 19, 2024
Talks Stage, 11:00am

Join us for a special launch event with Naomi Cohn, author of the newly published The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight, a poignant meditation on progressive vision loss and a stunning debut memoir. Through personal vignettes, historical insights, and scientific research, Cohn recounts her journey of navigating a life transformed by altered sight in micro-essays and prose poems, inviting readers to reflect on how society views disability—as well as on the possibilities of language, history, and lyric.

About the Author

Naomi Cohn, a writer and artist whose work explores reclamation, is a 2023 McKnight Artist Fellow in Writing. Her past includes a childhood among Chicago academics, involvement in a guerrilla feminist art collective, and work as an encyclopedia copyeditor, community organizer, grant writer, fundraising consultant, and therapist. Raised in Chicago, she now lives on unceded Dakota territory in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Visit her at naomi-cohn.com.