Debra
Kang Dean has published three collections of poetry: Back
to Back (NCWN, 1997), which won the Harperprints Poetry
Chapbook Competition, judged by Ruth Stone; News of Home
(BOA, 1998), which was co-winner of the New England Poetry
Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Award, and Precipitates
(BOA, 2003).
Her work has appeared in many journals and a number of anthologies,
including The Best American Poetry 1999, The
New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Urban
Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, and Yobo:
Korean American Writing in Hawai‘i.
She
is on the faculty of theSpalding
University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Program, teaches online through the UCLA Extension School’s
Writers’ Program, and is a contributing editor for Tar
River Poetry.
Visit
the contexts page to read about her participation in a 100-Day
Program conducted by the Magic
Tortoise Taijiquan School during the winter/spring of
2003. Or view a slide-show display of pictures she took from
the same spot at Walden Pond between the 2001 winter solstice
and 2002 vernal equinox—a project she started as one
more way of extending lessons learned from the daily practice
of taijiquan into other areas of her life.
She
was married to the late Bradley
P. Dean, a well-respected Thoreau scholar, for almost
thirty years. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with
Bashô and Cricket, their two cats.
