Hannalora Leavitt
December 04th, 2025
Hannalora Leavitt is a Vancouver Island-based author and disability-awareness expert who has been legally blind since the age of eleven due to a cancerous brain tumour. She holds a Master’s degree in Writing from the University of Victoria. Leavitt explores life with vision loss as a form of “dual citizenship”—living in both the sighted and blind worlds—and applies Malcolm Gladwell’s Ten-Thousand Hour Rule to assert that she is accomplished at being blind. Her second book is All About Us (Orca $29.95), which features twenty inspiring kids and adults living with disabilities today, including Paralympian Stefan Daniel and singer Stella Bartlett. All About Us explores the basic categories of disability—intellectual, sensory, physical and invisible—and introduces readers to people who were born with a disability and others who became disabled due to illness or accident. 9781459837089
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