Deborah Marie Poe's Page

Deborah Poe is the author of a poetry collection entitled Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Deborah has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations.

Deborah’s writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Filter Literary Magazine, Portland Review, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Many Mountains Moving, Drunken Boat and other journals as well as in the anthologies Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008).

Deborah’s current projects include "Elements"—her poetry collection based on the periodic table—a short fiction collection entitled "Event Landmarks" and an anthology of short fiction.

Deborah was born a military brat in Del Rio, Texas and has lived throughout the United States and abroad. After her undergraduate studies, she worked for almost ten years in businesses including hostel clerk and bartender in Paris, environmental activist in Austin,
a waitress in Taos, engineering assistant at Oregon Steel Mill in Portland, editor and international program manager in Seattle, and educator in Washington state and New York.

Deborah Poe received her Master of Arts from Western Washington University and her doctoral degree in May 2008 from Binghamton University, SUNY. Assistant Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, she teaches creative writing and contemporary fiction and theory.

For more information, including upcoming events and audio, please visit http://deborahpoe.com/.