World Pains

Willy Conley's most recent book is Photographic Memories – Essays, Playlets, and Stories. Other books he has authored that include his photos are Plays of Our Own – an Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers, The World of White Water – Poems, Visual-Gestural Communication, Listening Through the Bone – Collected Poems, The Deaf Heart – a novel, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays, and Broken Spokes. Conley, born profoundly deaf, is a retired professor emeritus and former chairperson of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University (the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf and hard-of-hearing people) in Washington, D.C. USA. Prior to being a professor, Conley used to work as a Registered Biological Photographer at some of the top hospitals in the U.S. such as Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cedars-Sinai, and University of Texas Medical Branch.