About Meet Author Debra Skibsted
Debra Skibsted is an author, former teacher, and woman of faith whose writing is rooted in faith, family, and the enduring power of God’s truth across generations.
For more than twenty years, education shaped much of Debra’s professional life. As a teacher, she spent years helping others read, write, learn, and discover. Those years also gave her experience in curriculum and technical writing—skills that would eventually lead her in a direction she had not expected.
Her first published work grew from a collaboration with Annette “Annie” Faith Bifulco. Together they co-authored Empowering the Warrior Within: Using the Word to Win the War on Anxiety. What began as an unexpected meeting and collaboration became the beginning of a new chapter in Debra’s life as an author.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Deb’s passion is to write stories and devotionals that encourage faith, hope, and a deeper walk with God. Through children’s writings, she seeks to plant seeds of faith in young hearts with stories that inspire and teach timeless biblical values. In her adult fiction, she blends real-life struggles with Christian truth, creating stories that offer both encouragement and spiritual insight.
Drawing from her experiences as a speaker and teacher, her devotionals combine personal reflections and scriptural wisdom to help readers recognize God’s faithfulness in every season of life.
Over time, Debra’s writing has also become a way to preserve the stories, memories, and lessons that shaped her own life. Much of that inspiration begins with family.
Family & Legacy Stories Worth Carrying Forward
Debra is the granddaughter of Anna Skibsted, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia whose faith, courage, and perseverance left a lasting impression on the generations that followed.
Debra’s grandmother immigrated from Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, and many of Debra’s childhood summers were spent on her grandparents’ farm. Those years taught her about hard work, resilience, simplicity, faith, appreciating what you have, and the importance of family.
The stories, traditions, recipes, and memories passed down through her family continue to inspire her writing today. Through them, she hopes to preserve memories, share timeless values, and encourage others to hold onto their own family history before it is lost.
For Debra, legacy is about more than remembering the past. It is about recognizing what previous generations have given us and deciding what is worth carrying forward. Sometimes those lessons are found in major events, but often they live quietly in family stories, recipes, traditions, conversations, and ordinary moments remembered years later.
Those are the kinds of stories Debra hopes to preserve and share—stories that connect one generation to another while pointing readers toward the faithfulness of God.
One generation shall commend Your works to another…
Deb’s hope is that readers find encouragement and renewed hope through these stories and are drawn into a deeper awareness of God’s presence in their lives. Whether she is writing about faith, family history, childhood memories, everyday traditions, or lessons discovered along the way, she hopes her words will connect the past to the present and preserve what is worth carrying forward.
She lives in Colorado and is a mother and grandmother who continues to write, teach, speak, and find inspiration in faith, family, and everyday life.
