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Teaching Writer | Editor | Trauma Advocate

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Teaching writer and assault trauma advocate Jenifer DeBellis, M.F.A., is author of Blood Sisters (Main Street Rag, 2018) and founding director of aRIFT Warrior Project. She hopes to release her second book, Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault, in 2020. In addition to publishing and promoting her writing, she edits Pink Panther Magazine—an international women’s art and literature journal in its 11th year, directs the Detroit Writers’ Guild, and works with The Alabaster Gift—a sex-trafficking survivor outreach. When she's not editing or writing for others, she sneaks in time for her own craft, which was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and appears in AWP's Festival Writer, Calyx, the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice, and other fine journals. A former fellow for the Meadow Brook Writing Project, JDB facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP Writing Camps as well as teaches writing and literature for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College. After decades of mentorship with assault survivors, she is shifting her teaching focus to impact positive change for teen and YA girl survivors. She will cultivate this positive change movement through an integration of trauma-informed recovery literature, outreach initiatives and services, and speaking engagements aimed to reach every teen & YA girl survivor, high school and college counseling center, and assault trauma outreach advocates and agencies across the nation (and beyond) who serve them. 

 

JDB enjoys country life with her life-partner and husband, Nick, and two of their three daughters. When she's not chasing down random things for them or simply chasing away boys, you might spot her running along the back roads of her small town.
Tips for Writers
Watch the Tips for Writers page, which offers strategies for creating new work, finding homes for publish-ready work, getting connected with a creative community, and other industry info and helpful tips. 

Newest Outreach & Book Project

Find more on GoFundMe and aRIFT Warrior Project pages.

Debut Poetry from Main Street Rag

Read full Blood Sisters Press Release HERE.
FEATURE POEM FROM BLOOD SISTERS

Little girl,

 

you will survive

these skinned knees, these bruised

cheeks. You will not jump, will not

form lasting scars with the barbed tip

of a #2 lead, will not die

in your sleep, no matter how

many times you pray for it. No

 

one will save you

in the end like they do in fairytales.

 

Little girl,

 

you will survive

the skinned cheeks, bruised knees,

starched heart. You will not find love

as the life of the party, will not

stop the kids with their sticks

from bashing your chest

 

until your innocence breaks free & settles

at your feet like piñata candy.

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Ways to Buy BLOOD SISTERS
Direct from publisher
  • Main Street Rag Publishing Co (2018) Charlotte, North Carolina 28227
From author
  • Jenifer DeBellis
  Signed copies $14 (+ shipping
   if you want it mailed to you) 
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In-person & delivered orders
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From bookstore
  • 99 Trees Bookstore
302 Center Ave, Bay City, MI
  • The Book Beat
26010 Greenfield Rd, Oak Park, MI
  • Pages Bookshop
19560 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, MI
  • Veda's Uniques & More
5481 Main St, Dryden, MI

READINGS & EVENTS
2nd Annual St Clair Shores Lit Walk
Featured Poet
ZOOM Living Room Style
Saturday, June 27, noon-2:30pm

POSTPONED EVENTS:
Wellspring Literary Series
Featured Poet
Art Reach Center of Mid Michigan 
111 E. Broadway, Mt Pleasant, MI
Monday, March 16, 7pm
Books for sale.

Open Mic Night
Reader
Starkweather Art Center at Romeo Masonic Lodge/Gray's Opera House
231 N Main St, Romeo, MI
Tuesday, April 10, 7pm
Books for sale.

Rotary Club of Mt Clemens
Clinton-Macomb Public Library Cooperative 
Featured Presenter

Italian American Cultural Society 

& Banquet Center

43843 Romeo Plank, Clinton Twp, MI
Thursday, May 7th, noon
Books for sale.

Macomb Community College
PoetryPalooza Reading Series
Featured Reader
Center Campus, P Building
44575 Garfield Rd, Clinton Twp, MI
Friday, April 24th, time TBA
Books for sale.

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Pink Panther Magazine News
Volume 10, No 2, Is Live, 8 September 2019

Submissions are open for Volume 11, No 1, due for release 8 March 2020
Find more information about Pink Panther Magazine here.
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