Deborah McWatters Padgett

Author’s Background

Deborah McWatters Padgett has been writing and painting her entire adult life. Her background includes a concentration in Literature from the University of Minnesota and a participating membership in the Loft Center for Literary Arts. Her instructors have included Alexs Pate, Faith Sullivan, Jonis Agee, Mary Gardener, Carol Bly and Patricia Weaver Francisco. She is a lifelong avid reader of literary and commercial fiction. Reading has served as primary educator to her writing.

LULU Press published Deborah’s first novel, SOLVING LONELY, in 2011. Her short fiction has appeared in SPOUT, GYPSY CAB and SING HEAVENLY MUSE. Her essays and articles have been published in national and regional arts publications, as well as, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art and Perception, (Australia) and in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She currently writes a monthly column titled “Living, Loving & Laughing…. Dear Deb”, for Saint Paul, Minnesota’s non-profit COMMUNITY REPORTER.

Deborah is mother to four grown children and grandmother to twenty-one. Her work celebrates the ordinary and attempts to hold dear the present moment in all its joy and sorrow.

She lives with her husband, ceramic artist and emeritus professor of art, Michael Padgett in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

THE SEA IN WINTER is Deborah’s second novel. A STORY LIKE TRUTH is her third novel. Look for her online at www.padgettstudios.com , www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com.