Bio
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DeAnna Stephens’ work has appeared in Cherry Tree, Pedestal Magazine, Feminist Studies, and other journals. In 2024, her poetry was a semifinalist for the Scotti Merrill Award for Poetry, and in 2023, her work won the George Scarbrough Prize for Poetry. She was the 2019 recipient of the Tennessee Williams Festival Poetry Contest. Stephens is a regular attendee of the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, and her work has placed numerous times in their poetry and fiction contests. She has received fellowships or scholarships to Sewanee Writers Conference,
Vermont Studio Center, Summer Literary Seminars, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference. Her poetry is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations, and in 2022, she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame. She is the author of the chapbook Heliotaxis (Main Street Rag, 2019) and the full-length collection Animal Psalm (Madville Publishing, 2026). Stephens is a professor of English at Roane State Community College where she teaches both online and on-site courses primarily in Cumberland County.
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Email: deannadstephens@outlook.com