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Sunday June 1, 2025

Humor Writer of the Month: Donna Debs

Donna Debs' debut book, Wash Your Brain: Stories. Laughter. Yoga. Life. (WanderWonder Books) won a gold award in the 2025 Independent Book Publishers Association book contest in the category of nonfiction humor. IBPA is the largest publishing trade association in the U.S. 

She describes the book as a collection of bite-sized stories that make you laugh, think and wonder.

“And that’s exactly what I did when I read Donna’s refreshingly honest and hysterically funny musings about her life as longtime yoga teacher, longtime writer, and most of all, longtime human trying her best to make it through each day in this off-kilter world,” writes author Helen Reese, who nominated her as "Humor Writer of the Month."

In 2008 — determined to cleanse the chaos in her mind by laughing at it — Debs began writing the humor column “Upside Down” for several Philadelphia-area newspapers, including the Daily Local News and the Times Herald. She is a former news reporter and editor for Philadelphia’s KYW Radio, and, for 25 years, she owned a writing/communications company, working with major corporate and nonprofit clients. Since the late 1990s, she has doubled as an Iyengar yoga teacher with an active yoga studio.

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