Contributing Writer

Deana (Hamby) Nall is a contributing writer for ACU Today and works as a freelance writer for a number of publications.

For four years, Nall wrote feature stories and a weekly opinion column for The Baytown Sun in Baytown, Texas. In 2002, she placed in the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors General Column Writing contest in the Class AA division.

Nall earned her B.A. in journalism from ACU in 1994. During her two years as senior staff writer and one year as managing news editor of the Optimist, she won the Best Management Board Rookie, Best Columnist and Best Section Editor awards. She also spent one year as editor of the Prickly Pear yearbook, for which she received the Vonda Deitz Award.

Nall now lives in the Little Rock, Ark., area where her husband, Chad ('94), is the youth and family minister at Little Rock Church. They have two daughters, Julia and Jenna.