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Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is the author of Girlfriend on Mars and two acclaimed collections of short stories. Her work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Walrus, and Zoetrope, among other publications. She lives in Calgary, Canada.

Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis is the author of Girlfriend on Mars and two acclaimed collections of short stories. Her work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Walrus, and Zoetrope, among other publications. She lives in Calgary, Canada.

Books by Deborah Willis

  • Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

    Deborah Willis, Emily Bernard

    Hardback, 2010

    A stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama that finally puts her phenomenal fame into a cultural and historical context we can all understand.
  • Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel

    Deborah Willis

    E Book

    Longlisted for the Giller Prize

    A Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023

    A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of...
  • Girlfriend on Mars: A Novel

    Deborah Willis

    Paperback, 2025

    Longlisted for the Giller Prize

    A Scientific American Best Staff Read of 2023

    A funny, poignant, and page-turning debut novel that skewers billionaire-funded space travel in a love story of...
  • Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present

    Deborah Willis, Robin D G Kelley, Kalia Brooks

    25th Anniversary Edition, Hardback, 2025

    The first comprehensive history of Black photographers, Reflections in Black returns in this ground-breaking, magnificently produced pictorial collection of African American life
  • Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present

    Deborah Willis, Robin D G Kelley, Kalia Brooks

    25th Anniversary Edition, E Book

    “Nothing less than an epic of Homeric proportions . . . Willis’s magnificent gathering of images . . . rewrites American history.” —Robin D. G. Kelley