I am completely flabbergasted (in a good way!) to learn that WE WALK: LIFE WITH SEVERE AUTISM won the 2022 SOVAS* award for best biography!
“In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience—the positive and the negative—as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism.”
Thank you so much to Amy S. F. Lutz for trusting me to tell Jonah’s story, to Margy at University Press/Redwood Audiobooks for extending great patience, and everyone at the SOVAS organization for their hard work. I am honored. ❤️
This win also wouldn’t have happened without the amazing support of the audiobook community narrators and coaches. Specifically, the two coaches Sean Allen Pratt (a.k.a. The Ginger Yoda) and PJ Ochlan (Dr. Dialect). I tried to infuse this narration project with everything they taught me (so thank you Sean and PJ).
The print version** of WE WALK was reviewed by the New York Times and the audiobook is also an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award Winner. If you would like to learn more about Amy S. F. Lutz and her son Jonah, PBS recently featured them on a documentary “Living with Profound Autism” as part of their IN A DIFFERENT KEY series. If you would like to listen to the audiobook of WE WALK, you can find it on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible.
*Society of Voice Arts and Sciences
**Print version published by Cornell University Press; Audiobook published by University Press Audiobooks/Redwood Audiobooks.