Life Raft

by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann’s memoir What We Hold On To, is the winner of The Aurora Polaris Creative Nonfiction Award and will be published by Trio House Press next year. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Nashville Review, Psychotherapy Networker and The Woven Tale Press. She is a clinical psychologist who lives outside Philadelphia.

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