Debbie Hagan Writer
"[Against the Tide] is an inspiring book about educational courage, about a law school for working-class people of all ages, that challenges the orthodoxy of the profession with its unique vision," Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States.
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About
Debbie Hagan is an author, editor, journalist, essayist, and creative nonfiction writer. Her work has appeared in books, magazines, newspapers, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, and in various other publications. She is the author of the narrative nonfiction book Against the Tide. She is former editor-in-chief of Art New England Magazine and former book reviews editor of Brevity online literary journal. Her essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Sunlight Press,*82 Review, Dillydoun Review, Raft, Riverteeth, Harvard Review, Superstition Review, Hyperallergic, Pleiades, Brain Child, plus various anthologies, including Dime Stories, Fearless Confessions, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. Debbie holds an MFA from Goucher College and has taught writing courses and workshops at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Dean College, Grub Street, Maine Alliance of Publishers and Writers, What Cheer Writers Club, and elsewhere. She is writing a memoir.
Publications
Essays
"Shine," The Sunlight Press, October 16, 2022
Portrait in Red, Dillydoun Review, April 2022
Out of Body, Raft, Jan. 29, 2021
Writing About Death, Split Lip, Interview with Sue
William Silverman, August 14, 2020
Human Heart, Superstition Review, Issue 18, Fall, 2016
Blind Curve, Brain, Child, August 11, 2014
Birch Whisperer, Brain, Child, Oct. 21, 2013
Art Reviews
Forever Under the Sky, Merimack Valley Magazine,
profile of photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen,
Dec. 8, 2018
A Multisensory Trip to Cuba’s Dark, Sugar-Filled Past.
Hyperallergic, March 25, 2016, artist Maria
Magdalena Compos-Pons and Neil Leonard’s
exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Making of Grandma Moses, Folk Modernist,
Hyperallergic, October 17, 2016
Finding the Realism in Impressionist Childe Hassam’s
Work, Hyperallergic, October 27, 2016
"Vincent, Weaver, Gorvett: Three Visions,” catalog
essay for Cape Ann Museum, Oct. 2015
"Christo: Rapt in Public," Art New England, Jan/Feb,
2014
Book Reviews
Heir to the Crescent Moon, by Sufiya Abdur-
Rahman, Brevity, April 15, 2022
The Light of Two Burning Stars, by Laura
Davis, Brevity, December 8, 2021
This Jade World, by Ira Sukrungruang, Brevity,
November 1, 2021
Censorettes, by Elizabeth Frank, Entropy, February 5,
2021
I’ll Be Your Mirror, by David Lazar, Harvard Review,
January 18, 2018,
Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson, Pleiades, January 2017
Books and Anthologies
Fearless: Women’s Journeys to Self-Empowerment,
essay “Scaling the Gargoyles.”
DimeStories , 2014, essay, “Birch Whisper”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles Happen, February
2014, essay, “S’more.”
Fodor’s Travel Guide 2014 and 2016, writer and editor
of the New Hampshire chapters
Instant Connections, by Jason Landry, Doolittle Press,
October 2013. Editor
100 Artists of Boston, by Chawky Frenn, Schiffer
Publishing, July 10, 2013. Introduction.
Against the Tide, by Debbie Hagan, Hamilton Books,
2004. Author of creative nonfiction, social justice
book about how a group of educators fought the
ABA to break open up opportunities in legal
education to minorities and those who cannot afford
traditional legal education.
