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- Debora L. Carr
- 166-B Manalapan Road
- Spotswood, NJ 08884
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- Debora L. Carr is best known to her friends as "The Dragon Lady," due to her fondness for drawing,
- creating, and collecting the fabuloud beasties. She has been a professional graphic artist for over 15 years
- and does freelance fantasy illustration as a hobby.
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- She is also a Fantasy Crafter and has copyrighted several of her original designs, including her popular
- bead-work sculptural mini-dragons, faeries, and angels which she sells at craft fairs and science fiction
- conventions. Her crafting extends into the realm of the theatrical, as she enjoys designing and creating
- science fiction and fantasy costumes, masks, props, and elaborate make-up designs. She wears her own
- creations to conventions and Renaissance Festivals, competing in Costume Calls and usually winning a
- major award, ribbon, or trophy. She especially acting "in character" while in garb and she has developed
- several well-known "personas" such as Tansy the Faun, The Red Dragon, Sharada the belly-dancer, and
- the Interstellar "Vixen."
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- In addition to her artistic hobbies, Debora also enjoys reading, working on her Macintosh, listening to
- New Age music, and pursuing a variety of studies such as mythologies/folktales, vampire/lycanthropic
- (werewolf) lore, word etymology, origins of customs and superstitutions, and ancient Egyptian culture and
- other early civilizations.
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- Debora graduated from Rutgers University with her B.A. in Art Education in 1980. She chose not to
- enter the teaching profession and instead became a paste-up production artist/darkroom technician. She
- currently works as a computer graphics artist and designer for a packaging and marketing consultancy
- firm.
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- She lives in the small town of Spotswood, New Jersey, sharing her life and apartment with her two cats,
- Tasha and T'Prr (a Vulcan feline!). She welcomes correspondence from fellow artists and fans of her
- work.
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