Human. Author. MacGyver in the kitchen.
I’ve written about food and love for The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Huffington Post, Kveller, Scary Mommy, Hippocampus, and more. My first book, Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter Out of Failure-to-Thrive, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2022. Now returning to my roots as a fiction writer, I’m looking for a publisher for my first novel AND my first picture book and thinking, always, about what could happen. So much could happen.
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Recent Published Work
I’ve Always Cared About Abortion Rights. It’s Never Been Enough. (What the Feminist Flux)
If You Know A Kid About To Go To College In A State With Abortion Restrictions, Read This (Huffington Post)
Abortion’s Old Craft Can Still Be Cultivated (Ms. Magazine)
The Closet (JMWW Journal)
Caregivers Are Real People (CHD Magazine)
In crafting this story, the writer not only exposes some of the reality of interacting with the medical community—that it can be impersonal, designed for populations not individuals, and difficult to navigate—but also writes herself back into the narrative…Her prose reads like an intimate conversation with a good friend who you’ve known for many years, and of course, each of you with a mug of coffee in your hands.
Interviews
Kitchen Medicine—A Story of Food and Love with Author Debi Lewis (Conversations About Conversations with Ivan Farber)
“They Say ‘Failure to Thrive’ but Moms Hear ‘Failure To Feed.'” (Burnt Toast with Virginia Sole-Smith)
Kitchen Medicine with Debi Lewis (That’s the #Truth with Daniel & Jenny Muscatell)
Overcoming a “Failure to Thrive Diagnosis” – Debi Lewis (Mothers of Misfits)
Words With Writers – Debi Lewis (Kathy Biehl’s Empowerment Unlimited)
Healing Her Child and Learning to Thrive (Happiness Through Hardship with Pretty Wellness’ Caryn Sullivan)
Writing About Our Children (Let’s Talk Memoir with Ronit Plank)
Beating Failure to Thrive (Heart to Heart with Anna)
About Debi
Debi Lewis holds a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin. As both a fiction writer and an essayist, Debi believes in compassion and curiosity as the keys to a compelling story, no matter the subject.
Debi's Work
Debi Lewis has been publishing essays and short stories in popular and niche publications for more than twenty years. Covering parenting, social action, and issues of faith, her writing has a distinctive crossover style.
Read and Panic
Based on what’s happening now, Debi is wondering what could happen. THIS COULD HAPPEN is her semi-regular flash fiction publication on Substack. Fair warning: she’s panicking, aloud.