Debra Busman is a fiction/creative non-fiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at California State University Monterey Bay. Co-editor ofFire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, Busman’s work has been published inCombined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism,Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape,The LA Review, and more. Her new novel,like a woman,is getting rave reviews, described by theLA Timesas “gritty but tender: charming in its immodesty and sinewy as a junkyard dog.”