Dr. Elizabeth Fogarty is an assistant professor of literacy in the Teacher Education Department at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. In 2006, she earned a PhD in Educational Psychology with a focus on Gifted Education. Liz is focused on helping teachers challenge gifted readers and differentiate to challenge all students. She has been recognized with the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, Early Leader in Gifted Education Award, East Carolina Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award, and NCAGT Distinguished Service Award. Liz currently serves as the President of the Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented. If she’s not reading a book, she can be found hanging out with her kids and husband and their dogs at a sports event or a cabin in northern Minnesota.