Deborah Kahan Kolb is the author of Escape of Light and Windows and a Looking Glass (Finishing Line Press), a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest. Much of her work is informed by the unique challenges of growing up in the insular world of Hasidic Judaism. Deborah is a recipient of the 2018 BRIO Award, and her work has been selected as a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award and an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Glimmer Train Fiction Open. Deborah is the producer of the short film Write Me, adapted from her poem “After Auschwitz.” Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, 3Elements Review, Literary Mama, Lunch Ticket, Mom Egg Review, New Verse News, Poets Reading the News, Rise Up Review, Running Wild Anthology, Writers Resist, and Veils, Halos & Shackles, an international poetry anthology addressing the oppression and empowerment of women.
