Amy Jean Hetland is from the land of sky-blue waters: MN. She is an adult English Language Learners Instructor, and volunteers in an animal shelter and her church. Her manuscript, “I’m Not Normal,” is about growing up with a disability, mental illness, and spiritual legalism. As an adult, she finally finds healing for the spiritual legalism through counseling and a church. Amy also accepts her disability and mental illness, and finds new purpose in persevering through both. She has been published in Spiritual Awakenings, Freedom Verse, and The Rusty Nail.