Every language is foreign to me,” Adam Pottle writes. Born with sensorineural hearing loss, he got his first hearing aids at six. He learned to fill in the gaps with the help of lip-reading and captioning devices, and today he speaks with a “deaf accent” — prompting some to ask if he’s Australian or Irish. He and his family learned a bit of American Sign…
Linda Besner
Linda Besner is a writer and poet with two collections to her name, Feel Happier in Nine Seconds and The Id Kid.