Ryan Knighton (born 1973) is a Canadian writer best known for being a blind author of books dealing with life and living life with blindness, such as Cockeyed: A Memoir[1] and C'mon Papa - Dispatches from a dad in the dark.[2] He teaches English and creative writing at a university and lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter. Although he has other published works (Swing in the Hollow and Cars) his books about blindness have struck a chord with multitudes of peoples with varying disabilities and have recently become popular reads at many different types of casual friend circle book clubs. A uniqueness to his work is his defining his disability as central to his life and his life's path, while simultaneously rejecting that blindness as a disability is necessarily a cultural club or the fact that blind or visually impaired people have anything more in common than their disability.