deborah brandon


Location tucson
Website http://www.deborahbrandon.com/portfolio.htm

About Me

by day, i help my toddler form, from a previously unintelligible mash of sound, words such as 'potty' and 'elbow.' i revert into my own intricate gibberish, sometimes writing it down, after everyone else is fast asleep.

publications include denver quarterly, hotel amerika, puerto del sol, cadillac cicatrix, evergreen chronicles.

mfa, 2004, school of the art institute of chicago.

ba, 2000, university of nebraska-lincoln.

Why do you write?

cameras (mine and others'). funny trees. li li xiang tea. mahler. woolf. galleries. nightmares. transcendental baths. walks. fear. yarn. many of the same any-things collected together. archaeology. the difference between one stone wet and the same stone dry. natural disaster. frailty. elevator buttons. laundry. longing. how things sound. etc.

Any favorite authors? Books?

lyn hejinian, rae armantrout, gertrude stein, susan howe, virginia woolf, dan beachy-quick, jacques derrida, djuna barnes, selah saterstrom, ts eliot, charles bukowski, bin ramke, lydia davis, amy hempel, vladimir nabokov, eleni sikelianos, albert camus, jon mcGregor, shirley jackson, alice notley, f scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway, yasunari kawabata, janet frame...........

deborah brandon's Wall

Meg Pokrass – Aug 01, 2011

Deborah,my goodness, thank you so much for your kind words today on my story wall! -meg

deborah brandon – Apr 13, 2010

thanks darryl. something about that place and those trees and the bite in the air & the trailer we happened upon were scary! and wonderful.

Darryl Price – Apr 10, 2010

funny trees. i love that very much. welcome.

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