Denise Orenstein

Denise Gosliner Orenstein is a graduate of Bennington College and Brown University. Her career in education includes directing the M.F.A. program at American University in Washington, D.C. She has also taught in bush villages throughout the state of Alaska, worked as a PEN prison writing mentor, taught literature classes, and assisted in a canine therapy program for inmates in Maryland. Most recently, as head of a school for children with learning differences, she introduced a writing curriculum based on two rescued Shetland ponies. Denise is the author of five young adult and middle grade novels published by Scholastic and HarperCollins.