Debbie Danielpour

Debbie Danielpour writes fiction, screenplays, libretti, and nonfiction. She has been a professor of fiction and screenwriting for over twenty years—at San Francisco State University, Emerson College, Harvard University, and now at Boston University. Her fiction has been published in AGNI, Lilith, Salamander, Natural Bridge, Another Chicago Magazine and Women’s Words; her nonfiction in What We Keep, Finding a Spiritual Home and her academic work in several books and journals. She collaborated on the libretto for Margaret Garner with Toni Morrison, wrote a musical adaptation of the young adult novel The Great Good Thing, and the farcical musical The King’s Ear based on the biblical story of Esther. Danielpour has an AB from Harvard College, an MA in film production and screenwriting from San Francisco State University, and an MFA in fiction and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars.