Debra Nystrom won Third Place in Narrative’s 2021 Spring Story Contest. She is the author of four poetry collections: Night Sky Frequencies, Bad River Road, Torn Sky, and A Quarter Turn. A recipient of a Library of Virginia Literary Award, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives.
Photograph by Mia O'Neill.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Someplace Else, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2025
- Early Cartography, a memoir, in Fall 2021
- On the Line, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2018–2019