St. Teresa Beach: Elixir for Generations - Julie Strauss Bettinger

Bettinger, Julie Strauss: - Julie Strauss Bettinger has been a literary journalist for more than 25 years. Encounters with Rikki: from Hurricane Katrina rescue to exceptional therapy dog, was a 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award and Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award (2016) finalist. She was also named a finalist for Proximity Magazine's Narrative Journalism Prize and her submission will be included in an anthology expected in 2019. In 2015, Julie coauthored the award-winning Blasted by Adversity: The Making of a Wounded Warrior. She earned both a bachelors and masters degree from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. Find her at www.JulieBettinger.com.