Anthologies

Short Stories

Burnt; This Side of Oz; Jack Briefly Regrets His Morning at the Market; Bashful Becomes and Outlaw and Laments the Marriage of a Close Friend; Mr. Splendiferous and the Shadows in the Alley

Topics

Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing

Public Speaking Details

Overcoming Procrastination (online presentation for Mystery Writers of America) 2024; Writing Short Fiction (online course for University of Maine's Sunrise Senior College) 2023; World Wellness (online course for both Lewiston-Auburn Senior College and University of Maine's Sunrise Senior College) 2023 and 2024; Panelist, Crime Bake 2021; Panelist, Travel Summit Association for Safe International Travel, Washington, DC 2019; Panelist, AWP Conference 2010; Final Judge, Denver Women's Press Club 2009; Guest Speaker, Annual National Writers Association, 2000; Guest Speaker, Colorado Writers Fellowship Magazine Writing Seminar, 2000

Biography

Debra Bokur is the author of the Dark Paradise Mysteries series (Kensington). She’s traveled the world as a writer, journalist, and staff editor for various national media outlets, with more than 2,000 print pieces carrying her byline. Her work has garnered multiple awards, including two Lowell Thomas Awards for Travel Journalism. For more than a decade, she served as the poetry editor at a national literary journal, and her poetry and short fiction have been widely published. Among her favorite writing credits are a series of original literary essays commissioned by the Celestial Seasonings tea company that appeared on the artfully illustrated boxes of ten separate tea flavors. She continues to travel in her capacity as the Global Researcher and Writer for the Association for Safe International Road Travel, and as a regular contributor to for Global Traveler Magazine. She divides her time between Colorado and Maine.