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Debra Nystrom

Debra Nystrom
Debra Nystrom is the author of four collections of poetry, and her nonfiction, fiction and poetry have been published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review, Narrative and Yale Review, among others. She has taught for many years in the University of Virginia’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is at work on a memoir.


What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

Debra Nystrom on the Power of Personal Story Alongside Objective Study
October 9, 2024  By Debra Nystrom
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