Denise Thornton

Denise Thornton is a freelance journalist. After writing for newspapers and magazines, her first book (on teens and physical disabilities) was published in April 2007, and her second book on teens and cancer will be published in April 2011.

Spring 2008, Denise completed the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional-track M.A. program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, focusing on health, science and environmental reporting. She’s also fascinated by sustainable agriculture and architecture.

Having completed her Master Gardener Volunteer training during the summer of 2011, Denise has taken on her first editing project as co-editor of the Wisconsin Garden Journal, a power-packed weekly engagement calendar aimed at gardeners includes monthly task lists, weekly tips, a planting guide, and extensive reference material for gardening in Zones 3, 4 and 5. The 2012 edition on which she is working will be themed “Celebrating our Past, Cultivating our Future!” and highlights agricultural wisdom from the past hat can take us into a sustainable future.

Denise is working on several non-fiction projects, rewriting a middle-grade novel about ghosts, and completing a timber frame barn on 44 acres in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, where Denise and her husband wage a constant campaign against the invasive plants that threaten the woods, savanna and prairie they are attempting to protect.

Within the next few years, they hope to contribute to the sustainably-grown local food supply from the south-facing slopes of their rolling land. Learn more about this at Denise’s blog, Digging in the Driftless.