Author: Deborah Thompson

Deborah Thompson is an emeritus professor of English at Colorado State University, where she taught modern drama, cultural studies, and creative nonfiction. She has published essays of critical and literary essays in numerous venues, including the Bellevue Literary Review, Briar Cliff, Calyx, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Hobart, Kenyon Review Online, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Missouri Review, Passages North, and Upstreet.  She was the winner of The Missouri Review’s 2008 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in creative nonfiction and the 2010 Iowa Review contest in the nonfiction category.  The latter essay, “Mishti Kukur,” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her book manuscript Pretzel, Houdini, and Olive: Essays on the Dogs in my Life won Red Hen Press’s Nonfiction book prize and was published in 2020. Her essay collection Animal Disorders was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2021. She is also the author of Dog of the Decade, a cultural studies approach to dogs and dog breeds in the U.S., published by McFarland Press. All three books are, like her dog Penguin, pandemic puppies.