Deborah Stephan

Honours earned in high school English in Ontario, Deborah Stephan’s reading and writing practice was a constant over years of banking and insurance courses. In B.C. in the past decade essays have taken up her words before earning a MASF 2016. Art school and university creative writing courses have informed her poetic practice of painting, blogging and facilitating workshops in contemplative writing, graffiti knitting, and collage. Her art work has been shown in over seventy exhibitions.

A 2020 graduate of the MDiv Program at the Carey Centre, UBC, Deborah facilitates Spiritual Disciplines in the Western tradition as well as Life Writing, and Creativity groups winning the May Benedict Award for her fieldwork. Deborah has had two years of the Doctor of Practical Theology Program at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON and has won a prize for her academic writing.