Deanna Bennett

Deanna Bennett was a Palm Harbor, Florida writer who founded the East Lake Writers' Workshop in 2004 and ran it for years at the East Lake Community Library. After a long career managing military research and development, she spent her retirement on the Anna Immigration Trilogy, fact-based fiction drawn from her grandmother's 1914 crossing from Lithuania. She also wrote The Year of Firsts, a memoir of the year after her husband Tom died, and finished Anna's Daughter, the memoir her mother Helen Dragunas started. She passed away in February 2023.