~ Deborah Tobola ~
About
Deborah Tobola is a poet, playwright, and co-author of a children’s book. Her work has earned four Pushcart Prize nominations, three Academy of American Poets awards, and a Children’s Choice Book Award.
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Pas De Deux
A meditation on terminal illness and a life well-lived, Pas de Duex is the final chapbook from poet Deborah Tobola. The book chronicles the author's reflective final years caringfor her dying mother, receiving a diagnosis of ovarian cancer,and embracing mortality with unflinchingly lucidity and levity.
From Covid to chemotherapy to family lore to taxes, Pas de Duex probes the meanings of identity, memoryand relationships in the face of encroaching death.
Now available on Amazon: Pas De Deux
A meditation on terminal illness and a life well-lived,
Pas de Duex is the final chapbook from poet Deborah Tobola.
The book chronicles the author's reflective final years caring
for her dying mother, receiving a diagnosis of ovarian cancer,
and embracing mortality with unflinchingly lucidity and levity.
From Covid to chemotherapy to family lore to taxes,
Pas de Duex probes the meanings of identity, memory
and relationships in the face of encroaching death.
Now available on Amazon: Pas De Deux
Hummingbird In Underworld:
Teaching in a Men's Prison
At the age of forty-five, Deborah Tobola returns to her birthplace, San Luis Obispo, to work in the very prison her
father worked in when he was a student at Cal Poly. But she’s
not wearing a uniform as he did; she’s there to teach creative writing and manage the prison’s arts program--a dream job.
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