Denise Flaim is
a professional journalist and was a long-time staff writer and columnist at the
daily Long Island newspaper Newsday. Her work appears in Dog Fancy, the AKC
Gazette and the Whole Dog Journal, among others.
Denise is the recipient two coveted Front Page awards from
the Newswomen's Club of New York for her 2005 Newsday story on ownership
disputes over rescued Katrina dogs and her 2006 "Animal House" blogs
on the search for Vivi the missing Westminster whippet. She is an award-winning
member of the Alliance of Purebred Dog Writers, as well as the World Dog Press Association and Dog Writers Association of America.
Denise is the author of "The Holistic Dog Book"
(Wiley, 2003) and "Getting Lucky: How One Dog Found Love and a Second
Chance at Angel's Gate" (Stewart, Tabori, Chang, 2005). Her third book,
"Rescue Ink," about a group of tattooed, Harley-riding animal
rescuers, was published in 2009 by Viking Press.
The historian for the Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of the United
States and its former health-and-genetics chair, Denise is the president of the
Nassau-Suffolk Owner Handlers Association and a founding member and secretary
of the Big Apple Sighthound Association.
Denise breeds under the Revodana kennel prefix. She lives on
Long Island with her husband Fred, their 6-year-old triplets Krista, Allie and
Stephen (also known as "the two-legged litter"), and three generations of Rhodesian
Ridgebacks.
