For the past 29 years, Debbie Sosin has worn a variety of professional hats. A freelance writer and former publications director at Hebrew College, in Newton, Massachusetts, Debbie posts her "everyday observations and existential musings" on Open Salon.com. Her essays have appeared on the cover pages of Salon.com and Skirt.com and in the Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Globe, Journal News, Jewish Advocate, and Zone 3. Her essay "Moon Fever: An Apollo 11 Flashback" appears in Perspectives on Modern World History: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (Greenhaven Press, 2011). Debbie is a member of Grub Street, Inc., a Boston writers' community; Chicks Who Write; and She Writes.

Beginning in 1965, Debbie kept a diary about her life in Rye, New York, and continued writing in Munich, Germany, where her family lived from 1966 to 1970. Since 2006, Debbie has been a cast member of the popular stage show Mortified and performs once or twice a year at Club Oberon in Cambridge, reading from her teen diaries. Her classically geeky seventh-grade class photo appears in the opening credits of "The Mortified Sessions," on the Sundance Channel beginning in Fall 2011. Debbie is writing a memoir, Where Is Luv? A Teenager's Diary of Hope, Passion, and Total Confusion. Check out the synopsis.

As an editor, Debbie has tackled most every form of the written word, from ad copy to book-length manuscripts. She is currently Managing Editor of the Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics. She has been on staff at Houghton Mifflin Company, Publicom, Inc., and freelanced for other publishing houses. Debbie consults with individual authors from concept to completion of their projects, or at any stage in-between. Her resume includes numerous psychology-related manuscripts, creative nonfiction essays, and young-adult fiction.

In 2009, Debbie launched the Write It Like It Is series of workshops and groups, designed to help people free up their authentic voice through writing about their life experiences in a nonjudgmental, creative atmosphere. She has taught Write It Like It Is at the Arlington Center, the Arlington Center for the Arts, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Debbie has been inspired by many wise authors, including Steve Almond, Nancy Aronie, Lynda Barry, Ellen Bass, Julia Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, Brenda Ueland, and others who value the truth and have the courage to write it like it is.

Debbie's career as a clinical social worker includes staff positions in both outpatient and inpatient settings in the Boston area. A 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan, Debbie received her MSW in 1982 from Smith College School for Social Work. Her master's thesis explored the psychology of adolescent diary writing, and she has published and lectured on the subject, including at an international psychiatry conference in Paris.

Currently, she is a staff psychotherapist at Sameem Associates in Newton and has a private practice there. Debbie has served on the clinical faculties of the graduate social work programs at Boston College, Boston University, and Simmons College, and offers private clinical supervision to mental health professionals. Her expertise includes addictions, adolescent girls’ and women’s issues, trauma, family systems, and career transitions. Debbie is a certified laughter yoga leader and a longtime meditator. She volunteers with the Newton-Needham Child Assault Prevention Program.

Debbie is a lifelong choral singer who has performed with the New World Chorale, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the Orpheus Singers, the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Chorus pro Musica, and the Master Singers, among many choral groups. She has had the pleasure of singing at Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and on tour in Europe and Israel with Zamir. A devout Red Sox fan, Debbie lives with her cats, Sophia and Sascha, outside of Boston.