Meet Deborah

Deborah E. Boyle was born and raised in a small New England town. She grew up on a piece of land that held a meadow, a forest, a brook and a pond - where in winter she ice-skated with her four sisters and brothers. On summer days she would often read a book outside, a burbling brook her only company. Deborah’s parents were born and raised in two of Maine’s paper mill towns, so Maine’s beauty - with its deep woods, cascading rivers, stunning lakes and rock-studded coast - has deeply informed her love of nature.

Deborah’s eighth grade classmates proclaimed in their yearbook that she was sure to be a writer, but she took a few detours first. She attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts and spent her junior year on a Smith College program in Paris, France and Geneva, Switzerland. In Paris, she met her future husband, Gerry. They graduated from college, married, and moved together to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where Deborah became a teacher. After three wonder-filled years in Brazil they returned to the United States and Deborah earned a Master’s in Nursing degree from the University of Washington. She spent more than 20 years working as a nurse and doing intermittent writing while also raising two magnificent children.

Deborah is now a full-time literary artist. She is a member of the Hollowdeck Press East Coast Writers Guild, the Writer’s Center, and the Maine Publishers and Writers Alliance. Miriam’s Dive is her first novel. She is working on her second novel, Aubrey’s Light, as well as a memoir, Maine Inside Me, about her parents and her large extended family, all of whom love to spin a good yarn. She lives with her husband in Maryland and Maine.