Selene dePackh

Selene dePackh is a multiply-disabled graphic designer, diagnosed as autistic late in life. She’s recently turned to writing to help navigate an increasingly treacherous social undertow bending toward eugenics. Kirkus says of her first novel and its narrator: “…a character of immense depth and originality. There are few protagonists in sci-fi—or literature in general—that present an autistic perspective with such specificity and pathos. The explorations of ableism and sexuality in a claustrophobic cyberpunk setting make this unlike anything most readers will have encountered before.”

She says of her writing, “It’s ironic that I’ve spent most of my life working in images. Words aren’t considered the tools of autistics; we are assumed to “think in pictures.” I bring a lifetime of crafting visual design to the challenge of creating narrative, and I do so driven by the urgency of my own waning days and the existential threats to the world I’ll be leaving.”