Dena Higley (born September 26, 1958) is an American writer, speaker and author.
She moved to Los Angeles as a teenager eventually graduating from the University of Southern California with a BFA in Theatre.
In February 2015, Soap Opera Digest confirmed Higley's imminent return to Days of Our Lives, this time alongside Josh Griffith.
[5] Days of Our Lives One Life to Live Dena has been married for 25 years to Mark and is a mother of four children, including an autistic son Connor, a daughter Jensen, an adopted daughter with physical disability,[6] from Vietnam Adelle, and an adopted son Helio, from Ethiopia.
[7] Her current non-fiction book Momaholic: Crazy Confessions of a Helicopter Parent was released April 14, 2012.