Deborah Clearman

The human cost of international adoption and immigration is exposed in the latest collection of compassionate short fiction by Deborah Clearman. Drawing on years of living in and writing about Guatemala, Clearman writes from the inside of the culture that she has grown to love, warts and all. Read more about CONCEPCIÓN AND THE BABY BROKERS and Other Stories Out of Guatemala at www.deborahclearman.com.

Deborah Clearman was born in North Carolina and grew up on a tobacco farm in Southern Maryland. She studied art history and fine arts at Bryn Mawr College and pursued a career in painting. Represented by First Street Gallery in New York City, her paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums. She wrote and illustrated THE GOOSE'S TALE (Whispering Coyote Press) for children. Rediscovering an early passion--her first (unpublished) novel written at age ten was forty pages, handwritten--she transitioned from painting to writing fiction. Her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. She is the author of a novel, TODOS SANTOS, from Black Lawrence Press.

Clearman is former Program Director for NY Writers Coalition, a nonprofit organization that gives voice to formerly unheard members of society through the art of writing. She continues to give creative writing workshops for women in jail on Rikers Island. A mother of two grown children, she lives in New York City and Guatemala.

Author photo by Marion Ettlinger