Heidi Griminger Blanke, Ph.D. writes feature articles for area publications and recently published her first romance novel, Redesigning Love, under the pen name Lisa Gabrielle. Her essays have appeared in Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women, Threads Magazine, humorwriters.org, and other websites and anthologies. Heidi is a member of Women Writers Ink and lives in western Wisconsin with her husband and dog.