Debra Denker has been writing stories since she learned to read. Although novels and poetry were her first loves, she turned her talent to journalism
in the ‘70s and ‘80s, writing about Afghanistan and the refugee situation in Pakistan for National Geographic and many leading newspapers.
She has specialized in social documentation utilizing journalism, photography, and film to convey the experiences of people in war torn
areas, with the intention of stimulating the
empathy necessary for humans to stop violence against people and planet.
In addition to her cli-fi novel, Weather Menders, Denker is the author of the non-fiction literary memoir Sisters on the Bridge of Fire: One Woman’s Journeys in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Her novel of Afghanistan, Love and War in the Land of Cain, won the 2022 National Federation of Press Women Award for Best Novel. The book is a compelling story of love, war, idealism and hard moral choices during the brutal Afghan-Soviet conflict of the 1980’s
Denker is Senior Editor of the award-winning storytelling website, Voices for Biodiversity, which raises consciousness to halt biodiversity loss and help ward off the Sixth Great Extinction.
She is director of the non-profit Global Diversity Film Project, which documents the myriad modes of perception in cultures worldwide, both traditional and innovative. GDFP’s films help us learn from indigenous peoples and cutting edge thinkers and doers who utilize ideas at the ever-shifting borders between science and spirituality.
She currently lives in Santa Fe with her cat family, Yeshe Gyalpo, and Samadhi Timewalker, but travels frequently in earthly space, and hopes to travel in time and galactic space.
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