Deborah Fries

Deborah Fries is the author of two books of poetry, Various Modes of Departure (winner of a Kore Press First Book Award) and The Bright Field of Everything, as well as a 2021 chapbook, Having Visions Again (Seven Kitchens Press). Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, she has been a recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize, James Hearst Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is a freelance writer and editor who currently lives in suburban Philadelphia where she writes about memory, race and genetic genealogy.