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.

Family gathered around a dining table enjoying a celebration, with a yellow birthday cake in the center and a gift bag. The group appears happy, and there are plates, glasses, and utensils on the table, with a window showing outdoor trees and cars in the background.
A woman with long brown hair, black glasses, and earrings is speaking during a television interview. She is wearing a black turtleneck with a Red Cross logo. The lower third of the screen displays her name, Denise Everhart, and her title as American Red Cross Hawaii Division Disaster Executive. The background includes a blue and wooden panel design, and another person in patterned clothing is partially visible.
A woman dressed as a Red Cross worker, wearing a gray cap with a Red Cross emblem, sunglasses, and a gray shirt with a Red Cross badge, carries a cardboard box in one hand and a White Red Cross donation bucket in the other, walking outdoors near a white pickup truck.
Two firefighters, a man and a woman, standing in front of a red fire truck, wearing navy blue uniforms and white cowboy hats, with their hands on their hips.