Debra Kaufman
Debra Kaufman's newest poetry collection is Outwalking the Shadow, published by Redhawk Publications. Previous books are God Shattered, Delicate Thefts, The Next Moment (all from Jacar Press), and A Certain Light (Emrys Press), as well as the chapbooks Family of Strangers, Still Life Burning, and Moon Mirror Whiskey Wind. Her poems have been widely published in such magazines as Southern Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Poetry East, North Carolina Literary Review, Spillway, and in numerous anthologies.
She has written five full-length plays, most recently Seeing Light, and many of her monologues and plays have been published or performed. She produced her play Harbor Hope as well as Illuminated Dresses, a series of monologues by women.
She recently adapted Johnny Johnson, Paul Green's 1936 antiwar play, for the Paul Green Foundation. Her essay about that adaptation will appear in the forthcoming anthology Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright, edited by Georgann Eubanks and Margaret Bauer.
She is a member of the Black Socks Poets and the Greensboro Playwrights Forum and lives in Mebane, NC.
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Participation at the 2016 West End Poetry Festival
- Opening Celebration | Friday, October 14 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books
- For a full schedule and descriptions of all sessions, see the festival schedule.