She has more recently been teaching for exciting ventures like The Gorge Writing Project and Peace Village. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Muse Strikes Back (Story Line Press), Whatever It Takes: Women on Women’s Sport (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and other anthologies and periodicals. She has served as senior associate editor of the award-winning Alaska Quarterly Review. Debra’s work is deeply connected to the complexities of family relationships and to life in the far north.