DeVon Nelson

A former journalist, DeVon Nelson, published her first romance novel — The Bitter and Sweet Around Me — in 2011. Since then, she has self-published three romance novels, Bitter Can Taste Oh So Sweet, Gotta Find My Way Back, which received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Literature from the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago, and her new novel, A Bakery Called Scrumptious. Born in Waukegan, Ill., – the setting for her first novel — DeVon earned her B.A. from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., where she majored in journalism. She has over a decade of writing for the News-Sun in Waukegan, Il., and the Chicago Tribune.