Author, educator, speaker,
and Autistic self-advocate.
Lauren Melissa Ellzey (she/her), or Autienelle, is an autistic self-advocate, disability activist, and fiction author. Through writing and presenting, she cultivates acceptance for the neurodivergent community. 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: StreamLine
Seventeen-year-old Diana hasn’t left her home in at least a month, but she has the whole online world at her fingertips.
Offline, she’s labeled as autistic and treated like a freak. Online, she’s Lune, an up-and-coming video game streamer with a small but steady fanbase.
When Lune crosses paths with the legendary girl gamer Nocht, she may have found the key that will boost her to the upper echelon of streamers. But then, Nocht begins to unravel everything Lune thought she knew about gaming, friendship, and love…
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
