Denise Cecelia Frost is a second-generation Angelino. For almost twenty years, she has worked at a small private liberal arts college in the heart of Los Angeles. Denise loves and respects Southern California, a melting pot of class and culture that is often misrepresented and misunderstood in popular fiction and media. Denise lives in Eagle Rock, California, with her husband, who is an NPR journalist and reporter, and three rescue dogs. Denise and her husband have an adult son, a filmmaker, who resides in Los Angeles.