Author Debra Di Blasi
Debra Di Blasi Debra is founding publisher of the groundbreaking multimedia company Jaded Ibis Productions, and prose editor of its imprint Jaded Ibis Press. She frequently teaches and lectures on topics related to 21st Century narrative forms, particularly in relation to current and future technologies.

Debra is a multi-genre, multimedia writer whose books include The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions, Drought & Say What You Like, Prayers of an Accidental Nature, Skin of the Sun, and What the Body Requires. 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, and Diagram Innovative Fiction Award, among others.

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 writing 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.


Forbes interview with Debra Di Blasi of Jaded Ibis Press, & Chris Richards of Autnomous Music The 21st Century Novel: Jaded Ibis Sees a ‘Mashup’
–AWP Radio program on Jaded Ibis Press, produced by Debra Di Blasi PUBLISHING AS MASHUP
–Article on Debra Di Blasi and her publishing venture, Jaded Ibis Press, by Paul Constant, book critic for: The Stranger
–New book review of Drought by Randall Brown: Flash Fiction
–Debra's innovative fiction appears in these new anthologies:
• Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009,edited by R. M. Berry.
• The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, edited by Steve Tomasula, Robert Archambeau, and Davis Schneiderman
• Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, edited by John Matthias and William O'Rourke.

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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