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Debora Harding is the author of the memoir Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime (Bloomsbury UK / US 2020). The book has been reviewed and discussed in various outlets including the Guardian, Telegraph, Cambridge Review of Books, Hippocampus and New York Journal of Books. The book was shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. The book was chosen as Crime Reads and Oxygen book of the year. It was a starred review in Publishers Weekly and Book Page, and chosen as an Amazon Editor’s Pick.

On 8 January 2024, Governor Jim Pillen signed a proclamation honoring Debora’s book “Dancing with the Octopus” as the selection for that year’s One Book One Nebraska.

Debora has written as a journalist for the Guardian, Observer, Unbound, the Daily Mail and other papers. She has given an array of interviews including BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, WOWT television in Omaha, Therapy Works, Bookit and Times Radio.

Debora started her career working in Washington DC for Senator Gary Hart, Senator Tom Daschle and the pollster Peter Hart (she was then known as Debora Cackler). For two years she was executive director of the Capital Crescent Trail. Debora co-founded the Oxford Channel television station. Debora trained as a restorative justice mediator and later was CEO for independent bicycle business City Bikes in Washington DC.

She is now a full-time writer and activist and splits her time between the United States and England.She holds both American and British citizenship, is the mother of two children, and lives in Hampshire. She is married to British writer, Thomas Harding.

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