I'm a lifelong writer who pens novels with characters that are like me and people I know - trying to live fully and faithfully, and trusting God to lead the way. Though we often fall short, grace is ever present. You'll likely recognize yourself, your relatives or your friends in my characters, and by book's end, I hope you will have laughed, cried and found yourself reflecting on how the twists and turns in their fictional world relate to your own.
Professional Bio
Stacy Hawkins Adams is a nationally-published, award-winning author and speaker. Her contemporary women’s fiction novels are filled with social themes and spiritual quests that take readers on journeys into their own souls.
She holds a degree in journalism and served as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade before turning her full attention to penning books, speaking professionally and writing freelance articles.
Her longest stint was at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia, where she extensively covered social issues and wrote a weekly faith-based column. Themes from her journalistic work often find their way into her fiction, through characters who grapple with domestic violence, infertility, spirituality, low self-esteem and other true-to-life issues. Her novels have been featured reading selections in high school and college courses, including at James Madison University.
Stacy’s freelance articles have appeared in Heart & Soul and Gospel Today magazines, AARP’s Bulletin, USA Today and on Crosswalk.com. She currently writes a semimonthly parenting column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and has penned an online parenting column for Smart Beginnings, an early childhood inititiative sponsored by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
She has served as an occasional broadcast reporter and has been a featured guest on national TV. She speaks regularly to corporate, collegiate, civic, faith-based and women’s groups and at writing conferences across the nation.
She is a member of the Virginia chapter of the National Speakers Association and the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association. She is the founding president of the Richmond affiliate of the American Christian Fiction Writers.
Stacy also serves as a nonprofit marketing consultant, which gives her the opportunity to use her marketing savvy and deep knowledge of the nonprofit arena to support youth-oriented charities such as Prevent Child Abuse Virginia and Reach Out and Read Virginia.
She is currently writing her sixth novel and her first nonfiction book, an inspirational title that will encourage women in their faith.
She lives in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia with her husband and two young children.
