Debbie has been a journalist, editor and translator for almost three decades. She specializes in writing about immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, sexual politics and sex panics, particularly in relation to women and children. Her work has been published in venues as varied as The Village Voice, The Nation, MS., Playboy, The Texas Observer, The New York Times, Social Text, Redbook and Counterpunch.

Debbie’s work has won numerous national and regional awards, including: The H.L. Mencken Award for Investigative Journalism, PEN West Award for Journalism, several prizes from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for feature journalism, the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for Journalism, and the John Bartlow Martin Award (from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism) for Public Service Journalism.

Debbie’s latest book is Pornography: A Groundwork Guide. For more information about the book and for a link to order it, click here.