Deanna Dikeman has been an artist since 1985. She resides in Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri. Her first body of work was a study of the suburban landscape in Johnson County, Kansas. She photographed her parents and other family in Iowa and Nebraska. She has done a series of photographs of interior details of homes. Her Wardrobe project includes photographs of old clothes in a thrift store and in the Stephens College Historical Costume Collection. She has photographed ballroom dancers and their clothing in movement. Her Lost Dog series shows posters of lost and found pets. Her most recent series, Lot Line, examines the spaces between houses. In 2021, her first monograph, "Leaving and Waving," was published by Chose Commune.