Selected Prose
Lit Hub: “What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir”
Narrative: “Early Cartography”
The Georgia Review: “My Mother’s Gowns”
Agni: “Dream of the Subjunctive”
Blackbird: “Haven’t I Been Sweet to You”
Narrative: “On the Line”
Kenyon Review: “You Didn’t Hear It From Me”
Tupelo Quarterly: “Charms Against Touch”
Kenyon Review: “River”
Book Reviews
Virginia Quarterly Review: “Ecstatic Sorrow: Claudia Emerson’s Impossible Bottle”
Virginia Quarterly Review: “Carol Muske-Dukes and the Art of Empathy”
Kenyon Review: “Eleanor Taylor: This is No Dream”
Debra is working on a memoir of interrelated stories of family, land, race, addiction, trauma and silence on the prairies of South Dakota.