Writing
Heather E. Hutsell spent her earliest years on Bainbridge Island, WA, before setting out to see the world just two months after turning 17. She started writing at age 11, knowing after entering and winning awards through the Young Author’s program (and for the next 2 years following) that she wanted to be a published author (despite what it says in her Kindergarten project—The Book of Me). Her first book, Awakening Alice—a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland—was first published in the collaborative work Ghost on the Highway in 2006. She then went on to self-publish Awakening Alice along with its sequel A Ticket for Patience in an illustrated version, in 2007. She has since writte…