Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton’s ‘Black Chameleon’ creates a new mythology for Black women

Michael Hagerty/Houston Public Media

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton kind of does everything. She's a poet – formerly the poet laureate of Houston, in fact. She's written plays, including a recent production about the life and career of ballet legend Lauren Anderson. And she's an opera librettist, just to name a few.

So, it's about time she added "memoirist" to her resume.

Her new book, Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth bends the definition memoir by combining stories of growing up a Black woman in America with elements of the fantastical in order to create a sort of new mythology for women like her.

Mouton will appear at an event at Brazos Bookstore on March 10 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the book. And she recently asked local writers and artists to create their own personal mythologies for a work of art that goes on display at Houston City Hall beginning today.

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