Deborah is a recipient of the Hawthornden Literary Fellowship.  Her first novel was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Award given by the Faulkner Society in New Orleans, LA. 

On assignment, Deborah has written ten TV films, numerous episodes, including two years on staff for NBC.  She has sold two original feature films, completed two more on assignment, and optioned two others. She has been hired as a script doctor for production polishes on several films. 

Deborah has taught writing at the University of California, San Diego, Wofford College, and at writers’ conferences nationwide.

For the stage: NO ONE WE KNOW a controversial family drama and finalist for the Henley Rose Award and the Playwrights First Award; also ECHOES: Powerful Men & False Reports a One-Act true story political drama, which took Third Place in The Little Theatre of Alexandria national competition for 2019.

Deborah’s travel memoir 2 Broads Abroad: Moms Fly the Coop, written with her sister Nancy Serra Greene was published by Library Tales Publishing in NYC, and subsequently adapted as a stage play NO MORE SMALL TALK.