Andrew Leibs is a chronicler of the Disability Movement with particular interests in low-vision literacy, accessible recreation, and disability in culture.

Leibs provides online and in-person consulting services (including content strategy, media relations, and motivational presentations) for individuals and disability organizations.

He is the award-winning author of two books and over 2,800 articles and writes on disability issues for the information portal Suite101.com.  Leibs first book, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader (Greenwood Press) was the first reference designed especially for students; his writings on blind literacy have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Careers and the Disabled, and RFB&D Teacher’s Aide.

He’s written on accessible recreation for such publications as the Boston Globe, Dialogue, the Ragged Edge, and UniversalSports.com.  He’s the author of Sports and Games of the Renaissance and edits Greenwood’s Sports and Games Through History series.

Leibs is an authority on the genetic condition of albinism.  His essays have appeared in Albinism Insight, Kaleidoscope, and the San Francisco Examiner.  In 1997, he wrote a declaration on albinism’s cultural misuses for a landmark defamation lawsuit against DC Comics.

Leibs awards include a New England Press Association feature-writing award, being named 1997 NSSA New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year (for the New Hampshire Union Leader), and six Suite101.com Editor’s Choice awards.  He holds a BA in English from St. John’s University and an MA in writing from the University of New Hampshire.