Mona Angéline (creativerunnigs.com) is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer querying her debut autofiction novel “I Run For Freedom,” but her personal essays, flash fiction, poetry, and reviews have been accepted in a number of publications. Mona is a reader for After Dinner Conversation and a regular guest editor for scientific journals. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, Reno, and New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability.