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Deanna Adams is a freelance writer, award-winning essayist, writing instructor, and speaker whose articles and essays have been published in a variety of newspapers and magazines including Ohio Magazine, Writers' Digest, Northern Ohio Live, The Plain Dealer, Sesame Street Parents Magazine, Soho Magazine, Lake County Business Journal, Today’s Family, Lake Erie Living Magazine, and other publications. She also contributed an article on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Her first book, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Cleveland Connection by Kent State University Press, was a finalist for the 2003 ARSC Award (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) for excellence in research, and a 2003 finalist for the Ohioana Book Award for nonfiction. Other books include Confessions of a Not-So-Good Catholic Girl, a collection of true stories about growing up a baby boomer in the Midwest, and Images of America: Cleveland's Rock and Roll Roots. Deanna is an instructor at Lakeland Community College, and director of the Western Reserve Writers' Conference, and the Women Writers’ Winter Retreat.

Deanna is currently working on her fourth book.