Carry All Your Roots With You.
First-generation Jamaican-American, DeAndra Davis, is an award-winning, autistic, and neurodivergent author of novels. DeAndra dedicates herself to exploring the intersections between compounding cultural identities, disabilities, and mental health concerns in her writing. She is a graduate of Florida International University where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction.
Her debut ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE, a young adult contemporary novel, has been the recipient of many national awards, including: the ALAN Amelia Elizabeth Walden award, the Robie Harris Youth Choice award, the Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality award, and the ALA William C. Morris award. ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE has also been counted among dozens of state library award lists across the country (including being named an Alabama School Library Association Yellowhammer Book Award Honor title), best of lists (including the YALSA 2026 Best Fiction for Young Adults and the 2026 Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year), and has garnered three starred trade reviews. This debut has been followed by the critically-acclaimed, THE LOVERS, THE LIARS, AND ME.
A reader since the age of 3, DeAndra’s finest memories are inside book stores and libraries with her mother where she devoured books well above her age range very early on. From Junie B. Jones to Eragon, DeAndra’s tastes varied wildly and she never stopped reading. Then, inspired by the characters she loved, she also never stopped writing. Now, a neurodivergent wife and mother of neurodivergent children, an advocate and survivor of mental health struggles, and a passionate creative writing professor, DeAndra writes the worlds that she lives, that she dreams of, and that she wants to tear down.
Though Brooklyn runs in her veins, Florida and Jamaica have her heart. You can find her rapping Glorilla as quickly as you’ll find her singing Beres Hammond. She loves raging about everything from Game of Thrones to Attack on Titan with her husband, children, their goldendoodle named Luna, and English Mastiff named Zeke.