Deanna Grey

Biography

Deanna Grey is a romance author known for writing New Adult stories centered on Black women, including sapphic romance and contemporary love stories. Her work often explores ambition, competition, identity, and relationships through characters whose experiences reflect the lives of Black women.

Grey has spoken about the importance of seeing Black women represented in romance and has cited that representation as an influence on her own writing. Her novel Outdrawn, a sapphic rivals-to-lovers romance, follows two competing comic artists whose professional rivalry develops into something more.

Through her fiction, Grey contributes to a growing body of contemporary romance that places Black women at the center of stories about love, creativity, friendship, and self-discovery (author image source: Meta).