[close] Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collection Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. She recently won New York State's Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) in creative writing.

Deborah’s writing is forthcoming or has appeared in The Portland Review, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Midway Journal, Drunken Boat, Many Mountains Moving, FOURSQUARE Editions, 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). Two of Deborah's poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2005 and 2006.

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

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 currently teaches at Binghamton University where she received her doctoral degree in May 2008. Her Master of Arts is from Western Washington University.
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