Deborah Joy Bormann The fourth of five children, Deborah Joy Bormann was born in Trieste, a border city, to an American father and a Spanish mother. She has lived in Bologna, Pisa, San Francisco, Madrid, Amsterdam... A series of coincidences and passions led her to Torino, her adoptive city. Mother, partner, teacher, art-therapist and artist, she has loved reading, writing, thinking and creating since a very young age.