After ten years of work, my debut memoir is finally complete
Debut Memoir by Deborah Ann Lucas
DANCE WHILE THE FIRE BURNS
Family, Identity, and Dreams, a memoir
To be released September 5, 2025
Find Your Story –
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For Women Writing Memoir or Fiction!
My Three Creative Expressions
Leaf River Writer reflects my life as a writer with family stories in my memoir Dance While the Fire Burns (in final revision). I will also share lists of my favorite books and teachers along with insights into a writer’s life.
Trot Town Studios shows my artwork: paintings, drawings, clay sculptures, and art quilts. I will be including photos of my BFA show Heart of Woman, my series of watercolors Nature As Symbol, and my MFA installation at the UCLA Wight Art Gallery called Spirit of Woman.
Down the Long Lane is where I write about healing the land as it has heals me, about our life on twenty-acres with stories of horses, making hay, and gardening.
When you breathe with a horse,
your worries will vanish.
Blow softly into their nostril,
and look into their eye.
Offer your spirit to them
in a moment of silence,
and they will return it restored.
