Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Reno, Nevada, where she graduated first in her class from UNR in 1997 (as Deborah McRann). While an undergraduate, she focused heavily on medieval and Renaissance literature from Beowulf to Shakespeare. She received her MA in English from Penn State in 1999, and later found work as a technical writer on projects ranging from nuclear ballistic missile submarines to NASA to computer manufacturing.

She currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. She’s published over two hundred poems that have appeared over seventy magazines, such as The Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy, and her poetry has received Pushcart, Rhysling, Best of the Net, and Dwarf Star award nominations. Her prize-winning short stories have appeared in Analog and Lightspeed and have been translated into Italian and Czech. Her novels are available through Amazon, as is her TTRPG, Mists & Memory, created with her husband.