Deborah A.M. Phillips (Lapointe) is an editor, poet, conference speaker and author of the novel Argonauta, a portrait of a family torn apart by their own crisis of separation and identity during the 1970s October Crisis in Quebec, a traumatic chapter in Canada’s history. Based in Quebec, Phillips’s fiction and non-fiction spans genre and language, with publication credits in religious, medical and general interest journals and magazines across North America and France. Deborah has degrees in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of British Columbia, and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from University of King's College Halifax. Phillips writing has been reviewed as “richly lyrical and complexly plotted.”