Deborah C. Segal, a resident of Berkeley, California, has been writing for over forty years. She wrote with John Oliver Simon, whom she met in the California Poets in the Schools program in the mid-seventies as a junior high student, and continued participating in his workshops through the late seventies. He published a few of her poems in the chapbook Skins of Change, Aldebaran Review #17, in 1975. Deborah continued to write poetry and earned her BA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, in 1983, where she was on the poetry selection panel of the editorial board for Transfer, the literary journal published by Poetry Center at SFSU. After a hiatus from creative writing, in which she raised two daughters and worked as a Library Assistant for the Berkeley Public Library, Deborah began research, writing and revisions on a one act play based on San Francisco Beat history. She completed Natalie's Story: A Raincheck for Jack Kerouac, in 2011, and networked profusely with the literary and theatre arts community of San Francisco Bay Area. Off Broadway West produced the work as a concert reading in 2012. It was standing room only, and well received. As a result of the concert reading, Mel C. Thompson published the play in 2013. In 2017, helmed by director Wm. D. (Rick) Razo, it was revised again, and produced as a live radio podcast on San Francisco's Mutiny Radio in 2017. The radio production, with a full sound design by Bruce Bjerke, can be heard on her Soundcloud page linked here: https://soundcloud.com/user-71070558/natalies-story Deborah's most recent release is a chapbook of poetry entitled 1975, previously unpublished work she wrote during the era she participated in Simon's poetry workshop. Under the mentorship of Mel C. Thompson, she archived her teenage notebooks, and the chapbook was published by Mel C. Thompson in October, 2019. Deborah is currently preparing a manuscript of new work emphasizing surrealist poetry and utilizing processes she has learned from Dadaist, Beat, and Punk Literary Arts. She intends to release the new chapbook in 2020 or 2021.