Her mother died in 2008, soon after Deonn graduated from UNC. Instead, Deonn spent a summer doing yoga and exploring San Francisco. program at UNC, she decided to turn down the spot. While there, she was a member of the fraternity of St. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with a bachelor and master's degree in Communication and Performance Studies.
And for the Black American students, this was just this horrifying, sort of traumatic, school assignment that white instructors never really thought about how painful that was." At age 9, Deonn wrote her first short story, and her mother had it copyrighted.
And so, students could come to class and be like my family, way back when, they came from France or they came from Scotland. However, she notes, "Growing up in North Carolina, there would be coursework as elementary and middle school, like, tell where your family came from, and this assumption that there was a European origin. As a child, she and her mother were fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, and science fiction and fantasy stories. The sequel novel Bloodmarked was published in 2022 and also became a New York Times bestseller.ĭeonn was raised in central North Carolina. Her debut novel Legendborn (2020) was a New York Times bestseller and received a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent and the 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Young Adult Novel.
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