Deborah Kaple

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FORTHCOMING FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Citizen Boss, A Gulag Memoir by Fyodor Mochulsky. Translated and annotated by Deborah Kaple

Soviet GULAG prisoners building a Railroad for Stalin, above the Arctic Circle

Nassau Literary Review, Winter 2008-09: Citizen Boss Excerpt

On China's leap to communism and the role of the Soviet model

Three-volume encyclopedia edited by Deborah Kaple

Deborah Kaple wrote the entries on Russia and the breakaway Soviet republics

Deborah Kaple's wrote the Government chapter

Chapter on Soviet Advisors in China in the 1950s

Author and Scholar

Deborah Kaple is interested in people and their stories. She is equally comfortable with bringing into English the intriguing account of a man who worked as a Gulag camp boss in Russia, as she is with unfolding the quietly dramatic tales of ordinary working folk in America. Every person and every situation has an interesting history, whether that story is fiction or non-fiction. Want to read about China? Russia? A glue factory in rural Ohio? Farmers? Mechanics? Have a look around and see for yourself.

FICTION

THE LONDON MAGAZINE, October/November 2007

A Vietnam vet struggling to keep his life together, falls in love and tries to save a child. Read Deborah Kaple's story "Flint" in this volume of THE LONDON MAGAZINE to see how it turns out

THE MACGUFFIN, Summer 2004

A young man grieving a tragic loss in his life turns to Porky Pig for solace and guidance. This short story "I Repair Cars" can be found in THE MACGUFFIN

THE LONDON MAGAZINE, April 2003

Beautiful Ruthie tries to make sense of growing older (and less beautiful?) in one Ohio town. See Deborah Kaple's story "Ruthie's Diary" in this volume of THE LONDON MAGAZINE

AMERICAN WRITING, March 2002

Does a dramatic rescue of a family dog save one man's relationship with his daughter? Read Deborah Kaple's story "One Dog's Life" in AMERICAN WRITING

Deborah Kaple reads fiction submissions for HUNGER MOUNTAIN

Hunger Mountain , the VCFA Journal of the Arts, is both a print publication and an online destination for readers, writers, artists and art lovers. (Look for Hunger Mountain online early this summer). Our mission is to cultivate engagement with and conversation about the arts by publishing high-quality, innovative literary and visual art by both established and emerging artists, and by offering opportunites for interactivity and discourse. We're published at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT.