Debbie explores how cultures collide, weave, and evolve. Her novels, short stories, and essays explore questions of human loss, longing, and resilience. Her work has appeared in Mothering Magazine, White Enso, and the “Sisters Singing” essay collection.
Debbie has worked as a freelance writer, a foreign investment liaison for a Japanese company, an international politics and economics conference organizer, and a high school teacher of English and Japanese.
Born in Connecticut, Debbie has lived in the Seattle area for over thirty years, after a child and young adulthood moving between the United States, Japan, England and (at the time) West Germany. She loves traveling, visiting museums, reading, swimming, meditation, herbs, and cats. She’s a mom to two amazing young men, and savors bringing dreams to life with her partner, David Blatner.
Grants and Awards
2018 PNWA Conference First Place Winner, Young Adult category: “Indra’s Net” [Link]
2015 PNWA Conference Second Place Winner, Short Story category: “Story Knife” [Link]
2010 PNWA Third Place Winner, Historical Fiction category: “Shakuhachi”
2008 Seattle Artist Trust Centrum Residency Grant [Link]
Links
Time In, Mothering Magazine (PDF)
Contact
Woodinville Writers
Debbie will be launching Woodinville Writers in 2024! If you’re interested in joining a group of writers in person, once a month, in the Woodinville area, please contact her for more information.