Willy Conley is the author of Photographic Memories, Plays of Our Own – An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers, Visual-Gestural Communication, The World of White Water, Listening Through the Bone, The Deaf Heart, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays, and Broken Spokes. His next book, "Space is deaf like me" (The Main Street Rag) is expected to be released in summer of 2024. Born profoundly deaf, Conley is a retired professor emeritus and chairperson of Theatre Arts at Gallaudet University (the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students) in Washington, D.C.