DeWana Green

Spent formative years in over 20 different foster homes, five long-term treatment facilities, and three group homes. Writes from a foster child’s perspective for other foster children or those looking to work with them.

About DeWana Green

DeWana Green knows about foster care. In fact, she spent most of her formative years in foster care. Her experience includes living in over 20 different foster homes, 5 long term treatment facilities, 3 group homes, and the pain that many foster children endure of people constantly giving up on them. Today, she is a proud university graduate holding both, bachelor’s and master’s level degrees. She works in healthcare/biotech and teaches college part time. She is also the brains and creative force behind DeWana G – It is in You a weekly inspirational quote and the online talk show Let’s Get Social on Facebook.

Read BookTrib’s review of DeWana’s book, Vonny B and Me.

 

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BOOKS:

Courageous Me: Everything is Going to be Alright (2017)

Biggest literary influencers:

Robert Fulghum, Maya Angelou, Judy Blume, Shel Silverstein, Theodor Seuss Geisel

Last book read:

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The book that changed your life:

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou… it is truly the anthem of my life. While it is an anthology of some of here greatest poems… I am there.

Your favorite literary character:

Charlie Brown because at some point we have all felt like Charlie Brown.

Currently working on:

Vonny B and Me series

Words to live by:

Treat everyone well because we are all solving a problem that no one knows about.

Advice to new and aspiring authors:

Everything sounds really good, but until you actually put the pen to the paper the sound will not have an echo.