About Deborah
Deborah Emin lives and works mostly in her Queens apartment. She is hard at
work on a number of projects that include a new novel, Scags at 18, as well as a
number of short stories and a few articles to help her spread the word about the
things she cares about—travel, politics and books.
She has taught writing to a variety of students for many years and while she
enjoyed that work immensely and credits her students with truly teaching her
how to write, now that she has learned she is spending more time writing and
less time teaching. That doesn’t mean that she has ended her teaching career
altogether, only that she is more selective about which students she works with.
Partly this is just her need to have more time to write without lots of other
peoples’ stories rumbling around in her head. She prefers to wake up in the
middle of the night with a solution to her own plot dilemmas rather than thinking
about her students’ stories.
Her background, academically, was primarily as a literary critic as opposed to a
writer. She did study with a few writers but found their methods and her needs
rarely coincided. What impressed her most about working with writing students
who were truly interested in literature was how generous they were. In a matter of
a few weeks, these students could explain and explore their connection to
writing, to their own processes and to what made their need to write a significant
part of their daily lives.
Now at the tail end of a long and perhaps too lengthy learning curve, Deborah is
engaged in trying to find that perfect balance between wanting to tell a very good
story and wanting that story to explore and question the confluence of art, politics
and the spiritual. When she sits down every day to write, she is grateful to so
many people for the kind of encouragement they have provided her in order to
make this dream a reality.
For sites that Deborah recommends, click here.
Deborah Emin lives and works mostly in her Queens apartment. She is hard at
work on a number of projects that include a new novel, Scags at 18, as well as a
number of short stories and a few articles to help her spread the word about the
things she cares about—travel, politics and books.
She has taught writing to a variety of students for many years and while she
enjoyed that work immensely and credits her students with truly teaching her
how to write, now that she has learned she is spending more time writing and
less time teaching. That doesn’t mean that she has ended her teaching career
altogether, only that she is more selective about which students she works with.
Partly this is just her need to have more time to write without lots of other
peoples’ stories rumbling around in her head. She prefers to wake up in the
middle of the night with a solution to her own plot dilemmas rather than thinking
about her students’ stories.
Her background, academically, was primarily as a literary critic as opposed to a
writer. She did study with a few writers but found their methods and her needs
rarely coincided. What impressed her most about working with writing students
who were truly interested in literature was how generous they were. In a matter of
a few weeks, these students could explain and explore their connection to
writing, to their own processes and to what made their need to write a significant
part of their daily lives.
Now at the tail end of a long and perhaps too lengthy learning curve, Deborah is
engaged in trying to find that perfect balance between wanting to tell a very good
story and wanting that story to explore and question the confluence of art, politics
and the spiritual. When she sits down every day to write, she is grateful to so
many people for the kind of encouragement they have provided her in order to
make this dream a reality.
For sites that Deborah recommends, click here.
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