Debora Harding spent her childhood in the midwest
prairie states of Nebraska and Iowa. At the age of
nineteen she dropped out of university to work for
Senator Gary Hart’s presidential campaign, before
relocating to Washington DC to run an environmental
non-profit. Fed up with politics, she cycled across
America where she met her English husband, author Thomas
Harding. She then joined him in the UK and worked at an
award-winning video production company that focused on
the counter-culture protest movement in Europe. Later,
she co-founded the UK’s first local television station
in Oxford and gave birth to two children, Kadian and
Sam. Wanting the children to enjoy the great outdoors,
the family moved back to the USA, and Debora trained as
a restorative justice mediator and ran an independent
bicycle business. She is now a full-time writer and
activist and splits her time between the United States
and England.