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Debra Di Blasi is a multi-genre, multimedia writer whose books include The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions; Drought & Say What You Like: Novellas; Prayers of an Accidental Nature: Short Stories; Skin of the Sun: New Writing; and What the Body Requires: A Novel. She has been favorably reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and elsewhere.
Awards include a James C. McCormick Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Thorpe Menn Book Award, Cinovation Screenwriting Award, Diagram Innovative Fiction Award, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and Best of the Web Fiction. Her books are taught at colleges and universities across the country, and have been the subject of doctorate studies abroad. Debra’s short fiction is included in a many leading anthologies of innovative writing and has been adapted to film, radio, theatre, and audio CD in the U.S. and abroad. Her essays, art reviews and articles can be found in a variety of international, national and regional publications.
The short film based on her novella, Drought, won a host of national and international awards, and was one of only six US films invited to the Universe Elle section of the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival. Her visual art has been exhibited at galleries and museums in the U.S. and virtually, and represented by Unit 8 Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. She worked in advertising management and production at MacWeek magazine and Robert Half of Northern California, and was contributing writer for SOMA art magazine (San Francisco), and art reviewer for The Pitch (Kansas City) and The New Art Examiner (Chicago).
Debra is founding publisher of the groundbreaking multimedia publishing company Jaded Ibis Productions, and prose editor of the imprint, Jaded Ibis Press. She taught experimental narrative forms for 8 years at Kansas City Art Institute, including hyperfiction, mixed media and multimedia fiction, experimental writing and the new memoir. She frequently lectures on topics related to 21st Century narrative forms. Past and future lectures include Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Associated Writing Programs Conference, New York, Washington, DC. Denver; &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing, San Diego, Buffalo, Notre Dame University, Chapman University; Pacific Northwest Writers Conference; International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering; Louisville Writers Conference; Mark Twain Writers Conference, and elsewhere.
Upcoming lectures include 40th Anniversary Louisville Conference on Literature; Annual Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago; &NOW Paris, Sorbonne University; International Book Conference, Barcelona, Spain, PCNWA, Seattle. FIND OUT MORE AT: Jaded Ibis Productions
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"In clear, resonant prose, laced with bittersweet humor, Di Blasi imparts her understanding of love's multiple ironies." -The New York Times Book Review
"Both Di Blasi's style and her objective distance and comprehension of her chosen subject mark her as a very psychologically driven, very talented writer." –Publishers Weekly
“With The Jirí Chronicles one gets the sense that Di Blasi saw the divide between what she wanted to do and what she’d achieved and said something like the hell with it, taking a torch to old ways of writing stories, and the result is by far the most interesting thing she’s done…. It’s a huge step for Di Blasi, and a welcome one.” –Tim Feeney, Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Di Blasi has a mind unlike anyone else writing fiction today, and this [The Jiri Chronicles] is her finest work yet." –Kevin Prufer, editor, Pleiades
"Beware, reader, you're in for a sumptuous, hypertextual, hypercharged ride. Hyperion himself would smile." –David Hamilton, Editor, The Iowa Review |
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