Author
Stephen Deason
Stephen Deason writes business fiction about the systems people fall through. His work follows families through the handoffs nobody owns, and the economics underneath them.
The work behind the work
Business fiction informed by practice.
Deason writes from an operating life in health care and recovery, where families are often asked to carry on with incomplete information and no clear owner for the next step.
That experience gives the novels their pressure and their stakes. His business fiction stays with the people who must make sense of the situation after the plan has already begun to come apart.
Recovery and work
A practical conviction.
The OPA RASA Foundation has worked to place more than 700 people from disadvantaged backgrounds into a variety of careers. That commitment to second chances, real work, and durable responsibility sits behind the questions his business fiction asks.
Visit The OPA RASA GroupSelected books
Fiction and selected writing.
Selected publications
Writing beyond the novels.
Alongside his business fiction, Deason contributed to Mission Matters: World’s Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips to Success and has published research in Accounting Horizons.
His academic work in experimental economics and a career spent leading technology, health care, and social enterprise organizations sharpen his interest in incentives, responsibility, and the costs hidden inside ordinary decisions.
Stephen publishes through Alder Creek Editions.