Selected Prose

Poetry Daily: “Charles Wright at 90", Poems of Spiritual Longing and Lyric Suspense”

Narrative: “Someplace Else”

Arrowsmith Journal: “House Arrest”

Agni: “Burning Ring”

Lit Hub: “What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir”

Narrative: “Early Cartography”

The Georgia Review: “My Mother’s Gowns”

Agni: “Dream of the Subjunctive”

Narrative: “On the Line”

Kenyon Review: “You Didn’t Hear It From Me”

Five Points: “Twilight Zone”

Tupelo Quarterly: “Charms Against Touch”

Kenyon Review: “River”

Book Reviews

Virginia Quarterly Review: “Ecstatic Sorrow:  Claudia Emerson’s Impossible Bottle”

Virginia Quarterly Review: “Carol Muske-Dukes and the Art of Empathy”

Kenyon Review: “Eleanor Taylor: This is No Dream”

Debra’s new memoir, River Under Ice, is a book that weaves interrelated stories of family, land, race, addiction, trauma and silence on the prairies of South Dakota.  It will be published in summer of 2027 by Catapult Books.