Debi Goodwin

Debi Goodwin is the author of two nonfiction books: Citizens of Nowhere (Doubleday, 2010/Anchor 2011) a journalistic account of following Somali refugees from their camps in Kenya through their first year in Canada, and A Victory Garden for Trying Times (Dundurn Press, 2019), a memoir of creating a garden in the year of her husband's cancer treatments and death. For more than twenty years, she was CBC television producer at the Journal, CBC Newsworld, and the National. For ten years she...See more

Debi Goodwin is the author of two nonfiction books: Citizens of Nowhere (Doubleday, 2010/Anchor 2011) a journalistic account of following Somali refugees from their camps in Kenya through their first year in Canada, and A Victory Garden for Trying Times (Dundurn Press, 2019), a memoir of creating a garden in the year of her husband's cancer treatments and death. For more than twenty years, she was CBC television producer at the Journal, CBC Newsworld, and the National. For ten years she produced international documentaries as well as documentaries at home on environmental and social issues, and the arts, winning several awards for her work. Debi currently lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake. See less