Debra Black is an award-winning former reporter and feature writer with the Toronto Star. Her most recent poetry has been published by Spillwords, Word City Literary Journal and Queen's Mob Teahouse. In collaboration with a Toronto visual artist, she published in 2021 A Call and Response: Words and Images, which was inspired by the pandemic. She has just published a collection of poetry - entitled Love, Lust, Existence and other Ephemeral Things.