About Debra Di Blasi

Debra Di Blasi is an artist and award-winning multigenre author of 11 books, with prose, poetry and hybrids published in anthologies of innovative literature and in prominent journals such as Boulevard, Copper Nickel, The Hunger, The Iowa Review, Kestrel, The Los Angeles Review, New Letters, New South Fiction, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, Triquarterly, and many more. Notable awards include the 2019 C&R Press Nonfiction Award for her lyric memoir Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past (Sept. 2020), selected for "Best Nonfiction Books 2020-2021" by Entropy Magazine; Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award for Drought & Say What You Like (New Directions); &NOW Award for "The Jiri Chronicles excerpts" (FC2/Univ. Alabama Press); Diagram Innovative Writing Award; and a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship. 

Reviews of her books have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Brevity, Foreword, Full Stop Magazine, Necessary Fiction, Neon Magazine, and elsewhere. Over the past 20 years, Di Blasi's writing has been taught in college literature courses and included in scholarly books and articles as examples of innovative forms and content. She has been interviewed for publications such as American Book Review, Best American Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, Forbes, HTMLGiant, Ploughshares, and in the recent book, Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers (Flore Chavaillier, Ohio State University Press. 2017). Her writing has been adapted to film, radio, theatre and audio CD in the US and abroad. She is a former book publisher, educator and art writer. 

BOOKS by Debra Di Blasi