Deborah Campbell is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Harper’s, The Economist, New Scientist, Foreign Policy, The Guardian and many other publications. Her first book This Heated Place is a literary journey inside the Israel-Palestine conflict; she is currently at work on a book about her travels among the refugees of the Iraq war.

She is the winner of several National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence as well as the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for her Harper’s piece on Iraqi refugees. Her radio documentaries on international affairs have aired on NPR and CBC radio. Her writing has been widely translated, appearing in anthologies and essay collections in Europe, Asia and North America.

Campbell has been an associate editor at Adbusters magazine. She also writes on contemporary art for magazines such as Canadian Art, Form, and Modern Painters. 

She studied history, political science, languages and Near East religions at universities on four continents. In addition to teaching creative writing and journalism at the University of British Columbia, she has guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley and Zayed University in Dubai, among others, and has appeared as a commentator on media and Mideast issues for TV and radio.

Campbell is a member of the FCC, a group of authors and literary journalists (John Vaillant, JB MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, Chris Tenove, Charles Montgomery, and Brian Payton) who use stories to illuminate contemporary issues.