Denise Everhart is a disaster relief leader, former firefighter and EMT, and the person her family calls when everything falls apart. She has spent two decades responding to hurricanes, wildfires, and earthquakes for the American Red Cross and FEMA — work she now understands she chose because a lifetime of caregiving had trained her to make order out of chaos.

For ten years, she served as the primary caregiver for both her mother, who was diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, and her father, who was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She managed their care while leading disaster operations across the Pacific Division of the American Red Cross.

The Wrong Pool is her first book.

She lives in Molalla, Oregon, with her husband Michael.