Denise Pattiz BogardDENISE PATTIZ BOGARD, author of AFTER ELISE and THE MIDDLE STEP, has been writing professionally for more than 40 years. Her award-winning fiction and non-fiction have been published in, among others, The Oklahoma Literary Review, Newsweek, Lady's Cicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Teacher Magazine, and two of her essays have been anthologized. Denise earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and her BS in journalism and history from Indiana University. Over the years she has been a journalist, a co-founding public relations partner, a certified secondary English/writing teacher, the founder of St. Louis Writers Workshop, and a novelist. Denise lives in St. Louis with her husband. AFTER ELISE has been named a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Contest, novel category. Read More Read Less