As well as writing short stories, autofiction and flash fiction, Debra works as a lifestyle writer and digital editor. In 2020, she graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London, with an MA in Creative & Life Writing, where she gained a Distinction. In 2020, she won The Bridport Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize. She was also shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Award and longlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the Reflex Flash Fiction Competition, and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Prize and the Exeter Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize and Retreat Micro Fiction Competition. Her stories have been published in Flash Flood, the Bridport Prize Anthology 2020 and the Bath Flash Fiction V.5 Anthology.