Team

Steven is a designer and writer with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. He lives in New York City with his girlfriend, spending his mornings drinking iced coffee and his evenings binging television and going to see musicals. An advocate for authentic representation in media, he created The Squeaky Wheel to amplify disabled voices and bring humor to the nuances of living with a disability.

Nimmy is a copyeditor in Colorado living with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited retinal disease that causes low vision. She loves animals (all of them), words, and comedy.

Julia is an autistic copyeditor, podcast producer, and data wizard. She lives in Seattle with several chronic illnesses and a cat.

Julia Lee Harter is a Texas based neurodivergent and chronically ill writer, journalist and lover of all things cozy. She’s currently working on a young adult romance novel about loving a body that doesn’t always love you back.

Leslie Moon runs The Writer's Bloc on YouTube, is a Script Editor and a Video Producer. He lives with Chronic Pain Syndrome & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and is based in the U.K.

Lori is a writer, artist, and biology nerd that lives with multiple disabilities. She's an advocate for disability rights, equality, and sleeping in. Sometimes she's serious and writes about disabilities and public health, but she's always squeaky.

Margaret is a neurodivergent and chronically ill software engineer, actor, and writer living in NYC. She has been involved with The Squeaky Wheel since its creation in 2021, and is proud to be part of this amazing community of hilarious disabled people.

Nate is standup comedian and improviser from Chicago. He lives with mild ataxic cerebral palsy and completed the Second City Writing Program. He loves wordplay, horror movies, musicals and operas.

Spencer (he/him) is an autistic professional living in Kansas City, Missouri, where he focuses on improving healthcare outcomes for neurodivergent individuals through advocacy and policy change. After performing stand-up for the first time in 2022, he fell in love with comedic writing, inflicting puns and terrible wordplay on his family and friends. He enjoys yoyoing, trying new hot sauces and exploring art created by disabled folks.

Zephyr is a queer autistic film critic and curator as well as a small-time horror writer. Her tastes range from Cronenberg to Cats (2019) and they're proud of it. If given the opportunity, they'd love to write for the Criterion Collection or Rifftrax.

Alexia is a Hard of Hearing writer from Ohio. She pretends to be good at lip reading, but is actually just an expert at bullsh*tting. She is a strong advocate for disability rights and for eating breakfast foods at all hours of the day.

Bea Mienik is a writer, performer, and musician based in NYC! She’s a recent NYU graduate and excellent multitasker (probably taking an insulin injection while making you laugh).

Amanda Russel (she/her) writes, illustrates, and works in the nonprofit world. She likes coffee, cats, cooking, baking, drag, and music. She is a complete paraplegic due to transverse myelitis caused by a lupus flare, and uses a manual wheelchair fulltime.

Cameron is an autistic playwright and stage manager living in New York City. She would love to infodump on you about the anthropology of interconnected liberation movements, BoJack Horseman, and why dogs are superior to people.

Helisa (also known as Frutilily) is an autistic woman, illustrator, designer, and linguist living in Brazil. She has an obsession with the Muppets and enjoys gaming, cooking, knitting, and drawing. She expresses herself best through illustrations because, "let's face it, I'm a disaster at social communication."

Jenny Cavallero (she/they) is a disabled writer and comedian in Washington, DC. She's had rheumatoid arthritis for their entire life (brag) and likes romance novels, talking about the best orthopedic cushions, and bagel sandwiches.

Jeremy is a writer, disability advocate, and open mic comedian based in the Denver area. He is excited to continue fighting ableism through satire.

Jerome lives in Chicago and loves history and birds. His goal is to visit every National Park, and never leaves home without his charcuterie board of invisible disabilities.

Kate Ryan is a queer writer, disability advocate, Unitarian Universalist, atheist, social justice non-warrior who is remarkably busy for someone without a paid job. She lives in the liberal bastion of Massachusetts, and has multiple disabilities including autism and chronic pain. She enjoys baking, reading, being outside, being in water, dogs, and showing people pictures of her niblings.

Kathleen Downes (she/her) is a licensed social worker, board certified patient advocate, blogger, and disability activist from suburban New York. Her work is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming anthology The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, a collection focusing on the intersection of disability and trauma from Sable Books.

Kayla is a chronically ill writer who loves finding warm bodies of water to swim in and wellness practices with cult like followings. She's part of Sick Bae, a sketch group for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and is based in Canada where she's hoarding the sweet, sweet universal healthcare.

Kevin (he/him) is a writer, podcaster, and lifelong lover of all things pop culture. He's seen Hamilton on Broadway and has been to Disney World too many times to count. He has SMA Type 2 and is currently co-writing a graphic novel.

Max Kerwien is a comedian, award-winning poet, and professional stunt double for The Muppets. He performs yearly in the Disabled Lists' comedy festival in Seattle and won “Pick of the Fringe” in the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Melanie is an author and poet who lives with ME/CFS. She enjoys writing stories that explore mental distress from a non-pathologizing, empowering perspective. When she's not writing, you can find her perusing a flea market or singing along to 90s feminist anthems. If you can't find her, she's probably taking a nap. 

Mia lives with multiple sclerosis, two cuddly pit bulls, and her amazing partner. She was born and raised in Florida and apologies in advance for everything inappropriate she does.

MV Perry is a Chicago-based novelist. His debut, A Revolution of the Mind, can be available at any bookstore that orders from Ingram.

Odessa self-identifies as a weirdo and clairvoyent capable of thinking of every nightmare scenario that may or may not ever occur. She is also a librarian and just generally tired all of the time.

Stacy Ashworth is a Canadian tetraplegic in England. No one has the explanation for any of that. It could be the tepid weather or castles or MS or lupus - or other reasons entirely. She’s written several novels, some of which are respectable.

Woonie is a lover of salty licorice, gummy bears and the outdoors. Originally from Malaysia, she attended college in Iowa and is currently living in California. She is a writer, runner, traveler, volunteer who happens to have Retinitis Pigmentosa, and a human being hoping to change the world through words, stories and laughter.