Deborah Kennedy

An artist and writer, Deborah Kennedy presents her work in the United States and Europe. Her recent book, Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth, combines illustrations and poetry focusing on the ecological themes of our time. Nature Speaks won numerous awards including the 2017 Eric Hoffer and Nautilus poetry book awards. She is also noted for creating four large-scale installations on the Berlin Wall six months before it was torn down. This work was an inspiration to thousands who witnessed art in the service of social change and has been featured in books and newspapers in Germany and the United States.

Kennedy lives in San Jose, CA where she teaches college classes and poetry workshops. She presents poetry readings with multi-media slide lectures on her work at bookstores, schools, and to poetry, ecology and spiritual groups. She often hikes in an urban riparian corridor where she spots osprey, hawks, and herons. In the evening she watches for moonbows, earthshine, and other modern miracles.