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Deborah Vail (she/her)  is a writer living with Type 1 diabetes and other auto-immune disorders. Most comfortable writing short fiction, she is inspired by the support she has received after sharing  memoir pieces and personal essays. Believing that writers need to support each other, she reviews debut novels by other emerging writers. In 2020 she completes an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia ,and her short stories, creative non-fiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in various Canadian journals such as The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Prism International, and Grain Magazine. She facilitates creative writing classes at the Port Moody Recreational Centre and  lives in Mission BC,  located in the Fraser Valley on Leq’á:mel, Semá:th, Kwantlen, Sq’éwlets, Máthexwi, and Katzie traditional territories.