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Denise Hollingsworth (born 11 August 1959) is an American author, life coach, public speaker, educator, and attorney. She is most recently known for her nonfiction, "She Just Disappeared, A Mother’s Faith Journey to Find Her Child”.

Biography
Born in Memphis, TN, Denise attended her local public schools, Riverview Elementary and Riverview Junior High. Due to the efforts of her guidance counselors, Denise received a scholarship in 1974 to further her education at The Shipley School, a girls' preparatory school near Philadelphia. She never lived in Memphis, Tennessee again but visited often until her mother’s death in 2008.

Early life
Denise sought out a boarding school scholarship opportunity in 7th grade through the nonprofit, A Better Chance (ABC). She had fought bouts of sadness, identity issues, as well as suicidal ideations, in her early teens and felt that a different environment might alleviate her worries about her future. Today she credits ABC, her participating preparatory school, The Shipley School (located in the suburbs of Philadelphia) as well as her public school Guidance Counselor, Marie Bradford, with setting her upon a course of independence and possibility. Denise connected with the diversity of the culture in the East and was inspired by the ambition she saw in the African American community in Philadelphia, as well as the richness of the local architecture and the proud Philadelphia history. She felt she had found a place where she could fit in and seek communities of curious minds. Following law school, she practiced in Philadelphia and was active in the local legal community. She was featured in The Shingle, the Philadelphia Bar Association publication in 1988 for her professional success while overcoming the challenges of being a single mother.

Marriage and children
Denise married Juan Dawson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1987. That marriage ended in divorce ten years later. There are three children from that union: Aisha Dawson, Rachel Webb, and Sarah Bredhoff. The daughters never saw their father again after the separation and his whereabouts remain unknown. Denise was briefly married to a politician and community leader, Albert Kelly of Bridgeton, New Jersey. There were no children from this union.

Published works
Denise's first publications were a series of her teenage misadventures in the Insight magazine in 2012. She entitled the series, The Adventures of a Girl-Child. These were all true accounts of misdeeds tied to the ultimate moral lessons of honesty, obedience, and self-preservation. During her Peace Corps tour, she wrote her first draft of She Just Disappeared, A Mother’s Faith Journey to Find Her Child. It was ultimately published through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) on July 1, 2019. She Just Disappeared sets forth some of Denise’s efforts to find one of her daughters after the daughter left her university campus with no forwarding address. For ten long years, Denise grieved the absence of her child- not knowing if she was still alive as the years passed. This interactive nonfiction does more than detail the author’s search, it offers transparency on personal faith during an unimaginable crisis. The author weaves the transformative account of Job’s resilient faith along her path and effortlessly draws reassuring parallels