Editors

Liane Holliday Willey, Ed.D.

Liane Holliday Willey is a highly articulate individual with Asperger syndrome, and an inspirational and motivational speaker who helps her audience truly understand the importance of accepting people with differences. All of her life, Liane knew that she was different, but only after one of her family members was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome did Liane realize the reason behind her differences; she too was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. With the odds firmly stacked against her, Liane rose to the challenges of life to acheive a place where she is happy, healthy and well balanced. Today, in addition to being the senior editor of Autism Spectrum Quarterly, Liane is also a successful writer, consultant, motivational speaker, freelance author, wife, and mother.

Liane is the author of the international best selling books Pretending to be Normal: Living with Aspergers Syndrome, forward by Tony Attwood, and Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal, forward by Pam Tanquay (both book by Jessica Kingsley Publisher). She is also the editor of Asperger Syndrome in Adolescence Living with the Ups, the Downs and Things in Between, forward by Luke Jackson, (Jessica Kingsley Publisher). In addition, Liane has contributed to many other books and journals.

The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Kansas City Star, The Oregon Register-Guard, The Toronto Star, The Grand Rapids Press, and many other major newspapers have featured Liane and her work. In addition, she has been the featured guest on several national and international radio shows including the award winning series The Infinite Mind, the prestigious BBC-Radio 4, Autism OneRadio, Spectrum Radio, WGVU, Lifetime, and dozens of local and regional talk radio shows. Liane's life story is the inspiration of two documentary films currently in production, as well as the focus of the video Asperger Syndrome: Crossing the Bridge with Tony Attwood (available from Starfish Specialty Press, LLC).

Liane is a board member of GRASP (Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership), the College Internship Program at the Brevard Center, and a founding board member of the Michigan Asperger Association.