DeAnna Stephens's work has appeared in Cherry Tree, Pedestal Magazine, Feminist Studies, and other journals. In 2024, her poetry was a semifinalist for the Scotti Merrill Award for Poetry, and in 2023, her work won the George Scarbrough Prize for Poetry. She was the 2019 recipient of the Tennessee Williams Festival Poetry Contest. Her poetry has received two Pushcart Prize nominations, and in 2022, she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame. She is the author of Heliotaxis from Main Street Rag. Stephens resides on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau where she teaches writing at Roane State Community College.