Deborah Meadows

Deborah Meadows (born 1956) is an American poet and playwright and essayist.

Education She graduated from SUNY, Buffalo (Magna Cum Laude with a BA in English and Philosophy) where she studied literature with the postmodern critic and novelist Raymond Federman, literature professor Myles Slatin, plays, and lithographs. She was nominated for Los Angeles Poet Laureate in 2014. From a working-class family, Meadows was born and raised in Buffalo, New York where she graduated from St. Martin's elementary school, then Nardin Academy. Meadows has described Buffalo as “rich in modernist art such as the Albright-Knox art collection .. with works of artists such as Clyfford Still, Jasper Johns, Rothko, etc. … Art Park on reclaimed land in the Niagara River gorge opened to include site-installed works, early conceptual and performance art, offered opera, and theatre...” as significant to her thought. her work has been widely anthologized. Meadows has been active in international cultural affairs, traveling a few times to Cuba where she met with Cuban writers such as Reina María Rodríguez and Antonio José Ponte, and she has traveled to and worked with poets in Buenos Aires such as Romina Freschi and Jorge Santiago Perednik. Meadows is a juror on the panel for The America Awards for outstanding contribution to world literature. She served on the board of the Los Angeles River Artists & Business Association from January 2013 to December 2016, and served as the 2014 president.