Debra McKenna received a B.A. in English and finished a year of graduate work in Creative Writing. After nine years of feature writing and editing for city magazines, she decided to try her hand at fiction--that's not including the fiction sometimes told her parents during the high school years. Their, "Where have you been?" was always answered by her, "At the library," which was true during the day but never at night. There were much more interesting things to do at night.She developed a love of books early on in grade school, first becoming enamored with Mark Twain, Carolyn Keene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Thurber, and John Steinbeck, then moving on to J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Erica Jong, Marilyn French, Rita Mae Brown, Marge Piercy, Tom Wolfe and so many others. After reading the first book that really moved her, Debra thought simply: "Wow, look what he did." She was smitten with the idea of creating another world.Now a student of life and the human condition, this traveler of an unusual road has developed an emotional intelligence that influences her life and instructs her activities. She has a natural bent towards philosophy with a heavy dose of humor on the side. How can you live in this world otherwise?When Debra's not writing, she enjoys reading a variety of women authors, watching films, walking her dog, working out, and caterwauling to the radio.Recovering from Life is her first novel.