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. She has also been an associate editor at Adbusters magazine. Her book This Heated Place is a journey inside the Israel-Palestine conflict. She is currently working on second book.

She has spent the past decade reporting from such places as Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Colombia, Cuba, and the Gaza Strip. Much of her work is immersive journalism that involves living among the societies she covers.

Campbell is the winner of several National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence as well as the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award.  Her writing has been widely translated, appearing in anthologies and essay collections in Europe, Asia and North America.  She has also written widely on contemporary art.

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. She is a founding member of the FCC, a collective of authors and literary journalists who use stories to illuminate contemporary issues.