ABOUT | deborah-fries

SOME THINGS ABOUT ME

Some things I've done

BFA and MA in English from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Kore Press First Book Award

Selected by Carolyn Forche

Editorial board member, contributor to Terrain.org since 2000.

Board member, Moonstone Inc./ Arts Center 2016-2019.

Montgomery County Poet Laureate, 2006

Selected by Galway Kinnell

Employed at some point in life -- not in chronological order -- as writing instructor, illustrator of microfossils, USAF medic, government spokesperson, business writer, public affairs professional, event planner, occupational therapy assistant, assistant to medical illustrator.

Teaching experiences

University TA and Lecturer: creative and technical writing

Community and Adult Ed: creative writing

Online distance learning: narrative medicine

Tutoring: creative writing, ESL

Some publications

Being Patient, Corporate Report Wisconsin, Making Sense of Alzheimer's, Milwaukee Magazine, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Business Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Terrain.org, Wisconsin Business

Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, Dear America

Ecotone, Moonstone Press Anthologies North American Review, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Stories,

Poet Lore

Terrain.org, Zero Dark Thirty

Books

Various Modes of Departure, Kore Press

The Bright Field of Everything, Kore Press

Having Visions Again, Seven Kitchens Press

Recent Editing Projects

PJM Interconnection, Company History, Annual Reports

Arizona State University, Academic Papers, Texts

Nuble+Arch, Memoir