Debra Jo Immergut is the author of The Captives, a novel forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in June 2018, and Private Property, a short-story collection from Random House. She is a MacDowell and Michener fellow and has an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. A magazine editor and journalist, she has also taught writing in libraries, military bases, and prisons. Her literary work has been published in American Short Fiction, Narrative, and the Russian-language journal Foreign Literature. Her journalism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, New York magazine, and many other places. She lives in western Massachusetts.
Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Alice has worked steadily as an actor in Australian and international film, television and theatre. Some of Alice’s feature film credits include Where the Wild Things are, Sanctum, Mao’s Last Dancer and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Her theatre credits include leading roles in Sydney Theatre Company’s The Taming of the Shrew and Griffin Theatre Company’s world premiere of The Peach Season.