Cai Emmons, author of SINKING ISLANDS, shares her journey to her ALS Diagnosis with the Washington Post.

At first, novelist Cai Emmons thought something might be wrong with her bite.

In December 2019, while reading from her latest work at a gathering in Sausalito, Calif., Emmons was keenly aware that her voice and speech pattern seemed different than usual. “There was a slight lack of flow and my rhythm was off,” she recalled. No one else seemed to notice anything amiss.

Read the rest of her story here.