Deborah Crooks is a California-based performing songwriter and writer who has released multiple collections of original music. Place-based, rooted in practice and informed by personal and natural history, media outlets have described her work as “imaginative, cinematic, informative and entertaining.” Along with her solo work, she co-founded the band Bay Station, contributed writing to multiple productions of Deborah Slater Dance Theater, and has penned articles, essays and fiction for a variety of publications including No Depression, The Sun, Northern Lights and “The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment.” Her latest project, Flight Lessons,’ is a two-act, six-character folk opera based on a story about urban Peregrine Falcons and the people with whom their lives intersect.
