Elaine Ambrose Romano is the author of more than 100 magazine articles and four books. She was the editor of the McCall Magazine and the associate editor of the Boise Magazine. She currently writes a humor column for Intermountain Golf Magazine. Elaine has won several writing awards from the Idaho Press Club. She was Idaho’s first female television news reporter and talk show hostess.

As the manager of corporate contributions for Boise Cascade Corporation, Elaine created and implemented a nationwide literacy program called “Ready to Read.” Her program brought books to elementary schools throughout the country and also provided newsprint for a nationwide children’s newspaper. For her literacy efforts, Elaine was chosen for the “Celebrate Literacy Award” from the Horizon Reading Council and was named a “Distinguished Citizen” by the Idaho Statesman, the state’s largest newspaper.

As the assistant director of school services for the University of Utah, Elaine wrote a promotional program that won first place in a national competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). A popular keynote speaker, Elaine’s most requested speech is titled “Live Happy or Die Crabby.” She speaks at conferences throughout the Northwest and was the 2000 Commencement Speaker for the University of Idaho. She was the national president of the University Alumni Association, and she is currently on the University Foundation Board and the Lionel Hampton Center Advisory Board.

An avid traveler, Elaine has visited thirty countries around the world. She and her husband own Mill Park Publishing in McCall, Idaho. They have three grown children.

Elaine is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Idaho Press Club, the Log Cabin Literary Center and the National Speakers Association. Additionally, Elaine A. Romano is listed with www.schoolbookings.com.

Mill Park Publishing author Elaine A. Romano was the featured speaker at the Executive Women’s Golf Association annual meeting in Boise, Idaho and the featured speaker at the Executive Women’s Golf Association annual meeting in Seattle, Washington last March. She was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Women’s Connection in Twin Falls, Idaho, in June. Elaine was also a featured speaker at the Payette Lakes Writers Conference in McCall in September.

Elaine A. Romano was the featured author of the week on the National Association of Women Writers website.