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 the revival of Jewish Life. 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 is currently an assistant director in the Expository Writing Program. Her dissertation research examines how narratives about addiction employ religious and spiritual discourses in order to complicate and enrich prevailing medical models of addiction.