Deborah Adams

Deborah Adams, also known as Deborah-Zenha Adams, is an American author. Biography A seventh-generation Tennessean, she was born and raised primarily in Tennessee, although she lived for several years during childhood in Western Kentucky. Her first book, All The Great Pretenders, was nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery. This was followed by six more books in the Jesus Creek series. In 1995, she won the Macavity Award for her short story "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". She was also nominated for an Agatha Award for this story. In 2018, her comedic magical-realism novel, {This Tale Is True}, was published. She is a charter member of the Southern Literary Coalition and is the founder of the Femmes Fatales, a group of cozy mystery writers that began collaborating on a newsletter (later a blog) in the mid-1990s, and continues until the present. Adams was a co-founder of Oconee Spirit Press, which published a number of popular authors during its ten year run.