Debra Maria Flint is a Catholic feminist writer and author of Look Back to the Future: Consecrated Women in Britain 597 AD to date (2021); No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women within Catholicism (2024) as well as her current book The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy which is written with her co-author Paul Murphy Sanderson. Flint, an Anglo-Greek bilingual, studied theology and later obtained a diploma in nursing studies, a BSc in social care and postgraduate qualifications in management and research. She worked for many years in safeguarding.