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.

Dwan has recently joined the world of blogging. Click here to check out her latest blog entries. She's also on MySpace. If you're on MySpace, please be sure to add her as one of your "friends." 

She worked as a contributing writer and editor for Images of Us and Nesting Solomagazine. 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, andFavor (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.

About Married Strangers

ISBN: 1-60162-975-3
Author: Dwan Abrams 
Price: $15.00 
Publication Date: November 25, 2008 
Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington

Synopsis: What do you do when you think you've married the wrong person? If anybody has ever found themselves asking that question, it's Rayna. And coming up with the answer is no easy feat as far as she's concerned. 

Shortly after getting married, Rayna discovered that marriage is not all it was cracked up to be. On the outside, she appears to be the happily married newlywed, but on the inside, she secretly wants out of this marriage that she knows she entered into for all the wrong reasons. And now she knows that she needs to get out of the marriage for all the right ones; because she's not physically compatible with her husband.

Her friend, Aja, has problems of her own. She's dealing with baby momma drama and sometimes regrets her decision to get married, too. 

Shania is in love and recently engaged...until she uncovers a secret that could rip her world apart. Will she even make it to the altar? 

These three main characters in Married Strangers takes the question of "Why Did I Get Married?" to a whole other level.

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