Airlie Rose is a Writing Associate at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Prior to her doctorate in Composition-Rhetoric, she earned an MFA in poetry and a MA in Evolutionary Developmental Zoology. She brings this interdisciplinary background, 15 years working with students in writing centers, and her life experience as a Quaker and mother of a child with autism to her current research exploring freewriting, genre, and neurodiversity in the inner experience of language. Airlie finds that an individual’s writing process is like a window into their inner landscape, a term she uses to describe the fact that every human mind and therefore each person’s inner world is unique, like a fingerprint, shaped by their biological development and life experience.