Elise Schiller

Elise Schiller has been writing fiction and actively participating in writing groups for many years. After a thirty-year career in education and family services in Philadelphia, she retired to write full time. Her memoir, Even If Your Heart Would Listen, is about the loss of her youngest child to a heroin overdose. She is currently working on a fiction series called The Broken Bell Series. Book One, Watermark, is available now. Schiller sits on the advisory board of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), and she has served on the Philadelphia Mayor’s Task Force on the Opioid Epidemic. When not writing, reading, or volunteering, she enjoys visiting museums and historical sites, often with one of her seven grandchildren or various nieces and nephews in tow.