Debbie Grynberg

Deborah Maria Grynberg was born in Los Angeles on July 6, 1968. Since early childhood, she loved to draw and paint. The walls of her family’s rented apartment in New Carlton, Maryland., were all scribbled on from the floor up to where she could reach at the age of 3-5. Deborah’s talent for drawing and painting continued to blossom as she won numerous prizes throughout kindergarten and grade school. In high school, she also had an acting success in the role of Puck in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

After graduating from McLean High School in Virginia, Deborah pursued higher education at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. During her junior year, she wrote an essay titled “Accepting the Truth in One’s Own Life,” later translated into Polish and published in “Pamiętnik 4.” After unfinished studies in Annapolis, Deborah’s journey took her to New England, where she married Mark Borok./span>

Tragically, Deborah’s life was cut short when she succumbed to cancer on December 23, 2007, in Newton, Maryland. Her legacy lives on through her art, her writings, and the memories of those who knew and loved her.