Debra Di Blasi
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Debra Di Blasi was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on May 27, 1957
Debra Di Blasi received the 2003 James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation,[1] the 1991 Eyster Prize in Fiction,[2] a 2005 Pushcart Prize nomination, and was a finalist in the Heekin Foundation’s Novel-in-Progress. Drought & Say What You Like won the 1998 Thorpe Menn Book Award. The New York Times Book Review praised Prayers of an Accidental Nature for its "clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor."[3]
Screenwriting credits include The Walking Wounded, finalist in the 1996 Austin Screenwriters Competition, and Drought, for which she won the 1999 Cinovation Screenwriting Award. She was the art columnist for Pitch magazine (www.pitch.com), and taught experimental writing, hyperfiction, mixed media fiction, and other writing courses at Kansas City Art Institute for seven years. She talks to high school students about reading and writing for PEN/Faulkner Writers in the Schools.[4]
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