Biography

Debra “D.L.” Pughe, essayist and museum professional, of Berkeley, California, earned a master’s degree in Philosophy from California State University-Dominguez Hills. She served as the director of exhibitions at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from 1982 to 1994. Pughe also worked for seven years at The Lawrence Hall of Science, a public science center in Berkeley, California. She lived in Iowa City, Iowa, when her husband, Jon Winet, was a professor at the University of Iowa’s School of Art, Art History, and Design. During that time, Pughe wrote essays focused on Iowa City, including “When Luck Grows Hard: Real Life in the Fiction Capital of America,” on poverty in the Midwest, and “Being in Dog Time,” about how dogs experience time at the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center. She also built displays and miniature tableaus for the Iowa City Library, University of Iowa Hospitals, and the Imagination Station. [Biographical information found on Pughe’s “The Dream of Knowledge” website]

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