Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, and teacher. After working as a full-time journalist for the Village Voice Media, she attended Penn State University, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing in 2012. From 2012-13, she was a Fulbright scholar to Poland, where she researched and wrote about Jewish Life in Poland since WWII. In the fall of 2013, Denise began her work as a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Washington--Seattle, where she also served as the assistant director in the Expository Writing Program 2015-2017. Her dissertation research examines how narratives about addiction employ religious and spiritual discourses in order to complicate and enrich prevailing medical models of addiction.