The Life of Neil Marcus: Disability, Art, and Our Society

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Neil Marcus described himself as “a poet, humorist, writer, actor, and adventurer-a fantastic spastic creatively endowed with disability.” He is best known for his groundbreaking autobiographical play, Storm Reading, which he performed nationwide from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC to the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles. He was commissioned to write a poem on disability by the Smithsonian Institute. He is the author of his autobiography with the contribution of S.H. Chambers.

S.H. Chambers is the contributor of I, Spastic. They is a cis-gender Euroamerican writer, cartoonist, and composer. Currently they is the editorial cartoonist for the Coast News.

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