Deborah E Boyle

Deborah E. Boyle was born and raised in a small New England town. She met her husband in Paris, France in 1975. They moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where her daughter was born in 1983. Her son was born in Maine in 1987, the state where many of her large extended family members live. She trained as a nurse practitioner at the University of Washington with a specialty in the mental health care of children and adolescents. She worked for many years as a nurse researcher at a large biomedical institution outside of Washington, D. C. She is currently a full-time literary artist who lives with her husband in Maryland and Maine. Miriam's Dive is her first novel. She is working on Maine Inside Me, a memoir about her parents who were born and raised in paper mill towns in Maine.