Debbie K. Trantow has been an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous for over thirty years. She began practicing magick as a Wiccan in the 1980s, has had more than forty poems published, and wrote for Minnesota Women's Press as well as local newspapers. She earned her MFA in creative and professional writing from the University of Minnesota in 2002, and she was awarded the Gesell Summer Writing Fellowship.