Neurodivergent Pride #13: Animal Companions (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781648413971)

Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest growing publisher of 2022. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, PBS, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. Biel is the author of People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & A T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, Ore. Find out more at joebiel.net Partly Robot, the alter ego of Andrew Coltrin, writes and blogs about feeling more than human in a world of mere humans. Partly stumbled upon his Autism diagnosis after he stopped in used bookstores and started working in schools. After burning out on being an English teacher, he's been an undercover angel working in special ed programs of schools in Arizona and Oregon. He also writes odd things and periodically posts on his website PartlyRobot.com.