Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Kolb has been published in The New York Times and the Atlantic. "Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice" is her first book.
Awards: Rhodes scholarship (and we'll see if any book-related awards follow!)
Communities: Person with a Disability
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