Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe) is a writer, conference speaker, and Critique Group Leader and Coach. She is the author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada’s history. Her memoir, 4 Names, 28 Moves, was shortlisted for Best New Canadian Manuscript in 2024 by Castle Quay Books. Based in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Phillips’s fiction and nonfiction span genre and language, with publication credits in religion and general interest magazines across North America and France. With a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction at the University of King’s College at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Phillips, writing has been reviewed as “richly lyrical and complexly plotted.”
Deborah A. M. Phillips
