Deborah Richards received her M.A. in poetry in 2000. Her thesis manuscript, Last One Out was published by Subpress in 2002. Her chapbook Parable was published by Leroy Press, 2001. Her poems have appeared in Chain, HOW2, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Nocturnes and Encyclopedia, volume 1. An interview “An Accumulation of Things Happening” and poems appeared in Callaloo, vol. 27, no. 4 special issue on “Contemporary African-American Poetry: A New Wave.” She is featured on the CD Women in the Avant Garde put out by Narrow House Recordings. She currently lives in London.