Helen a Bemis

Helen Bemis has enjoyed working with dogs all her life, and they have often played important parts in her novels.

She grew up on a dairy farm in Upper New York State; after graduating high school, she attended Albany Medical Center School of Nursing. She is married and has three children.

She obtained a college degree at SUNY Adirondack, earned the Certified Professional Dog Trainer international certification, and has a successful business, K-9 Karing. She has been a Therapy Dog evaluator and is an A. K. C. award evaluator. She has judged fun dog matches, often speaks to many organizations, and teaches dog safety and other dog-related topics to schools as well as at her local college.

This is her sixteenth Riverview book.

She loves to hear people say, “Helen has gone to the dogs.”