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Deborah Kennedy
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Writer and Editor, Freelance
Oregon City
Beats
Biography
Deborah Kennedy is a freelance journalist and fiction writer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her experience includes stints at a national theater magazine, a small-town community paper, and a weekly music rag. She's written about everything from cockfighting to Amish romance novels, zoning laws to Molly Ringwald and butt rock, not necessarily in that order. Her work has appeared in Salon, Good Housekeeping, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, The Establishment, The Hairpin, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her debut novel, Tornado Weather, was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Best First Novel prize by the Mystery Writers of America, and in 2018 she was named Best Emerging Author by the Indiana Author Awards. Her short stories have appeared in The Hong Kong Review, The North American Review, Sou'wester, and Third Coast Magazine. She is a 2013 graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received her MFA in fiction writing. When Kennedy is not writing, she's teaching. She's taught literature, creative writing, and composition at a number of private and public universities, including Pacific Lutheran University, the University of Iowa, Hanover College, and Miami University. When she's not teaching, she's running or reading or baking. Kennedy loves weird things, weirder people, and baseball. Also dogs and Barbara Pym and Medieval curses. She lives in Forest Grove, Oregon with her mother and young son.
parenting, movies, personal finance. pop culture, humor, music entertainment, politics,Books caregiving, science, motherhood
Food and drink.
Content
By Deborah Kennedy| Willamette Week Verified This story first appeared in the Dec. 4, 2013 edition of WW. There are many reasons a woman might respond to a Craigslist want ad for bikini baristas. Maybe said woman always wanted to learn a useful trade. Or perhaps she had longed for years to indulge her exhibitionist side but never found the right venue in which to do so. Or—bear with me—it could be that at the time she came across the ad, our job hunter was 36 years old, unemployed, broke and living with her mother.
By Deborah Kennedy| Free-Thought Podcast by Shuddhashar@ The Golden YearsLine of light from the window, framed by the curtains and the rod. One foot of water-damaged ceiling, then vent. Another foot, then fan. Blade one. Blade two. Blade three. Blade four, out of whack. Out of alignment, all wobbly. Five more feet, doorway. Door, painted badly. Smurf stickers near the knob. Nat loved The Smurfs, went through a whole phase. Smurf this. Smurf that. Hey, Ma. Go Smurf yourself. Line of light from the window. Vent, closed. Ceiling fan, dusty, needed cleaned.
By Deborah Kennedy| Literary Hub Verified The man lived in a stone house across from a historic cemetery in an eerily quiet and strangely dated corner of one of Cincinnati’s funkiest neighborhoods. Climbing the stairs to his front door, I felt the judgmental, ghostly eyes of countless long-dead Catholics boring into my back, seeing through my business casual ensemble to the slutty lingerie underneath. The feeling was at once shameful and titillating, scary and surreal.
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
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