Dwan Abrams was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is the oldest of four children. She has lived in Europe and throughout the United States.

After graduating with honors from King's Academy High School in New Jersey, she served four honorable years in the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force she was recognized as Airman of the Month twice and Personnel Specialist of the Quarter. Due to her outstanding leadership skills, she was promoted early to the rank of Senior Airman.

Dwan is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Prior to becoming a full-time writer and publisher, Dwan worked as a manager for a Fortune 100 company for nearly ten years. She has experience in sales, customer service, and marketing.

A true leader in the community, Dwan was a mentor at Shamrock Middle School. She has participated in Career Day and Job Shadowing Day at local Atlanta middle and high schools. As a supporter of Johnnie’s House “Feed the Hungry” campaign, she appeared in a Public Service Announcement that aired on WATC TV 57 in Atlanta. Dwan has volunteered for United Way campaigns, Adopt-a-Family, and Santa’s Helping Hands.

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She worked as a contributing writer and editor for Images of Us and Nesting Solo magazine. Some of her celebrity features included: Reynaldo Rey; George C. Fraser (Author of Success Runs in Our Race: The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the Black Community and CLICK ); and Arthur Wylie (CEO of Arthur Wylie Wealth Management Group (AWWMG) and author of Why Die Broke). Her online articles can be found at ideamarketers.com and YourBlackWorld.com. Additionally,
she worked as the fashion editor for FIERCE411.com, a top site for women.

As a freelance editor, Dwan has edited numerous manuscripts for aspiring and established authors. Her services include: proofreading, copy editing, substantive editing, ghostwriting, and manuscript critiques and evaluations.

Dwan has been featured in Booking Matters and Awareness magazine. She's been interviewed on Atlanta Live, which aired on WATC TV 57. Due to her hard work and determination, Dwan has been inducted in the 2006 "Who's Who in Black Atlanta" under the Entrepreneurs section.

She's a member of: The Writer's Hut, Shades of Romance Magazine (SORMAG), and Nubian Literary writing groups. Her professional affiliations include: the International Women's Writers Guild, Small Publishers and Writers Network (SPAWN), PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, Military Writers Society of America (MWSA), The American Authors Association (AAA), American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and The Marguerite Press Speaker's Bureau.

She's the best-selling author of Married Strangers, Divorcing the Devil (nominated for the 2008 African American Literary Awards Show), Only True Love Waits (winner of the 2007 Pen of the Writer POWER Award for Best Fiction), The Scream Within, and Favor (a short story appearing in The Midnight Clear: Stories of Love, Hope and Inspiration anthology). She resides in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia with her family.