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Debra Di Blasi [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
US
Email: 
debra@debradiblasi.com
Bio: 

Debra Di Blasi is an award-winning multi-genre writer and visual artist. She is author of ten books and hundreds of short works. Her writing has been adapted to film, radio, theatre, and audio CD in the US and abroad. As a former art critic, educator, and founding publisher of Jaded Ibis Productions and its imprint, Jaded Ibis Press, she became a noted speaker on the intersection of literature, publishing and technology and continues to write as an independent scholar on topics related to the aesthetics and meanings of narrative.​

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
MO
Missouri
Raised in: 
MO
Missouri
Website: 
https://www.debradiblasi.com [2]
Prizes won: 
  • 2019 C&R Press Nonfiction Award (for Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past)
  • James C. McCormick Fiction Fellowship (Christopher Isherwood Foundation)
  • Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award (for Drought & Say What You Like)
  • &NOW Award (for The Jiri Chronicles; excerpts)
  • Inspiration Grant (Kansas City Metropolitan Arts Council; for BLEED educational videos)
  • Diagram Innovative Fiction Award (for "Quell the Mayhem Night")
  • Best of the Web Fiction (Web del Sol; for "Personal Effects")
  • Best Screenplay (Kansas City Filmmakers / Kansas City Film Festival; for Drought)
  • Eyster Prize in Fiction (New Delta Review; for "An Interview with My Husband")

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/debra_di_blasi [2] https://www.debradiblasi.com