Dyslexic Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson has been writing and performing her poems across the world for the past five years, from Camden, to Shanghai. In 2008 her poetic journey was followed by Channel 4 for a year, as part of Yeardot. Since, she has organised a festival for 7,000, has taught and performed for legacies like Lyric Lounge and has been published by Oxford University Poetry Society and Louis Vuitton.

She is currently running her own young collective at Nottingham Playhouse called Mouthy Poets, who have sold all their shows. Simultaneously to creating a commissioned piece for BBC Radio 3, tutoring at Nottingham University and preparing for her Roosevelt Travelling Scholarship, to research the benefits of spoken word on Young people in America.

As a dyslexic writer one of ,Debris’ goals is to empower people through innovative thinking and creativity. And at 21, Dyslexic Debris has just graduated with a First Class Hons in Creative and Professional Writing from The University of Nottingham, and has subsequently been invited to lecture at the University next year. A step closer to achieving her goal.

‘If only the year 9s could meet people like Debris, then they’d all love English!’.