Author, educator, speaker,
and Autistic self-advocate.
Lauren Melissa Ellzey (she/her), or Autienelle, is an autistic self-advocate, social justice influencer, and fiction author. Through writing and presenting, she seeks to cultivate acceptance for the neurodivergent community. Even more, she engages across lines of difference, highlighting the inequitable systems that oppress queer, BIPOC, and disabled folks. In all, she hopes to co-create a society where autistics nurture autistics as we strive toward true inclusion.
Newest Release: Gimmicks and Glamour
Ashly Harris has a secret she’s been keeping all her life.
To everyone else she’s just a seventeen-year-old party girl and problem senior at Hackley High School. She has always felt alone, and not just because she’s biracial and openly bisexual. Ashly sees faeries all around her, all the time…
Collaborations
Lauren Melissa’s has work crossed paths with Reframing Autism, Penn State, NYU, the United Nations, Pima County Health Department, Amazon Prime Video, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and more.
Previous Works