Elise Schiller is the award-winning author of Even if Your Heart Would Listen: Losing My Daughter to Heroin (2019) and Watermark (2020). Schiller sits on the advisory board of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), and on the Board of the non-profit Safehouse. She served on the Philadelphia Mayor’s Task Force on the Opioid Epidemic. She is an active member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. When not writing, reading, teaching or volunteering, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, and visiting museums and historical sites.