Starting a new life after retiring from a business career, Deena Lindstedt became a full-time student at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon majoring in English Literature and Writing, graduating with a BA degree in 2006. During her senior year she was inspired by a Shakespeare class, with not just the plays and sonnets, but with the authorship question as well. She was certain a woman must have had a hand in writing the plays since so many of the roles had strong female characters. This led her to Elizabeth Trentham, the second wife of Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.Deena is a widow living in Tigard, Oregon. She has three sons, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Following her twenty-five-year career in workers' compensation claims administration, besides going back to college, she devoted herself to a second marriage to Donald Lindstedt and living in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Her first novel, Deception Cove, was published by Wings ePress in 2010. Following Don's death in 2014, she moved to Tigard, Oregon to be closer to family. She is kept busy with writing and meetings with writers' groups. She is a member of P.E.O. and plays bridge once a week.Besides her novel, Deception Cove, other fiction honors include third place winner for a poem: "Two Ladies of Chedigny" for Willamette Writers, Portland. Finalist for short story: Simply to Fly for NW Writers Association contest in Seattle. She presented a paper at the Virginia Woolf Conference, Lewis and Clark University and was a guest speaker at the 2011 Shakespeare Authorship Symposium delivering her paper, "Shakespeare, Perhaps a Woman."
