Deborah Kasdan

After retiring from a thirty-five-year career writing about business and technology, Deborah Kasdan joined Westport Writers' Workshop to make her personal stories come alive. She has served on the board of directors of an intergenerational housing organization and the National Organization on Mental Illness (NAMI) for Southwest CT. She loves swimming, yoga, and frequent visits with her four grandchildren. Currently, she is working on a novel about the adventures of a girl growing up in a Jewish orphanage in Chicago during the 1930s. During the summer she and her husband reside near the great Nauset Marsh of Cape Cod and live the rest of the year in Norwalk, Connecticut.