Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, Psy.D., author of LOST FOUND KEPT: A MEMOIR
Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, is a book about the author's experience cleaning out her childhood home, which reveals her mother's severe hoarding and unearths family secrets... including the search for her biological father and stepfather. The memoir, written by a clinical psychologist, explores themes of family trauma, mental illness, and the complex, often contradictory, love between a daughter and her mother, all while navigating the physical and emotional debris of the past.
Lost Found Kept: A Memoir was published by Trio House Press in early 2025. It is the winner of the 2023 Aurora Polaris Award for Creative Nonfiction from Trio House Press.
Deb won the Short Memoir Competition at the 2007 Philadelphia First Person Arts Festival. She has also received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship and an Individual Creative Artist-Special Opportunity Stipend for Literature (Poetry) from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have appeared in a range of literary journals and other publications including the Nashville Review, The Woven Tale Press, and Psychotherapy Networker. She has been a fellow in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Ragdale Foundation on a number of occasions for both poetry and nonfiction.
Kossmann has been in full time private practice for more than thirty years and has experience in oncology, community mental health, and leadership consulting. Deb lives outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband, Marc, and Sofia Carmela, a cat with a whole lot of “tortitude.”
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 6, 2026
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- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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- Winsor Room
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- Radnor Memorial Library
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