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Deborah's stories and poems have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Early publications included poems in the New Edinburgh Review (Edinburgh), and stories in The Listener (London) and New Writing Scotland 3(Aberdeen).

In 1986 three of her stories were published in "Faber’s First Fictions: Introductions 9". Her fiction has appeared in three other anthologies: "Soho Square" (Bloomsbury), "Scottish Short Stories 1991" (HarperCollins), and "Short Circuits" (Virago). Her stories have also appeared in Chapman (Edinburgh), Company (London), Cosmopolitan (London), Critical Quarterly (Manchester), Krino (Dublin), Passages (Belfast), P.N Review (Manchester), Stet (Cork) and West Coast Magazine (Glasgow).

The following is a complete list of the journals in which Deborah's poems have been published: Acumen (Brixham), Cencrastus (Edinburgh), Crannog (Galway), Cyphers (Dublin), Flaming Arrows (Sligo), Fortnight (Belfast), the Frogmore Papers (Lewes), New Edinburgh Review (Edinburgh), New Statesman and Society (London), Northern Lights (Hanover, New Hampshire), Northlight (Glasgow), Northwords (Dingwall), Oasis (London), Orbis (Nuneaton/Wirral), Other Poetry (Newcastle), Poetry Scotland (Callander), Revival (Limerick), The Scotsman (Edinburgh), The Shop (Schull), Stand (Leeds), The Steeple (Cork), the Stony Thursday Book (Limerick), Verse (St. Andrews), and Writing Women (Newcastle).

Her work has also appeared in the following anthologies: "The Golden Goose Hour: the First Shore Poets Anthology" (Taranis Books), "The Forward Book of Poetry 2010" (Forward/Faber), and "Poems of the Decade; an anthology of the Forward books of poetry 2002-2011" (Forward/Faber).

Deborah also writes in Gaidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) and has published two feature articles in that language in Cothrom.

She received a Bursary Award of £5,000 from the Scottish Arts Council in 1986.