Sharon V. Betcher is a freelance academic living on Whidbey Island, Washington, and Affiliate Professor of Theology, Research and Teaching Fellow, at Vancouver School of Theology. She is the author of two academic manuscripts, Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Fortress, 2007) and Spirit and Cosmopolis: Theology for Seculars (Fordham, forthcoming 2013) as well as essays on ecological, postcolonial, and disabilities theologies within multiple anthologies. Over the past several years, she has been exploring the diverse genres within creative nonfiction, and she recently won first place in the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts’ 100 Word Story Smash with her composition “Blackberry Memorial” and in the Whidbey Island Writer’s Association 2012 1,200-word memoir competition with her composition “Facing Diminishment.”