Disabled Storytellers considers how medieval forms of life writing speak to Critical Disability Studies and disability-oriented communities today. The introduction opens with the author’s reflections on teaching the Middle English Revelations of Divine Love (or Showings) of Julian of Norwich during the early COVID-19 lockdowns. Julian’s account of her spiritual reflections on illness and isolation in the wake of the bubonic plague deeply resonated with students, fostering unexpected connections across time and circumstances. The author then offers a comparative reading of Julian and Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, highlighting Wang’s modern pilgrimage for healing and her creation of community among disabled peers. The introduction considers two of this book’s key terms: crip time, the non-normative ways disabled and ill people experience time and space; and crip intimacy, a disability-centered closeness that can connect people – including authors and readers – across time, space, and identity. Summaries of the book’s chapters are included.