Amanda V. Peterson is a practicing Pulmonary/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner with 16 years of critical care nursing experience at United Hospital in Saint Paul, MN. She spent 2 years as a COVID ICU nurse from March of 2020 to February of 2021, and again from September of 2021 to February of 2022. Her award-winning book, Everybody Just Breathe: A COVID Nurse Memoir of Stamina and Swear Words, documents her account of that period in nursing history. She graduated with her Acute Care NP from Winona State University in 2022, and with her BSN from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire in 2006. She was the commencement speaker at both graduations because she loves microphones. She lives in Hudson, WI with her husband Collin, her two silly children, and her two sillier bulldogs.