About

Award-winning published author TJ Fisher is a recognized social critic and influencer, a trendsetter and tastemaker.

We All Dream in Gold is her current project.

TJ is a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA), Dramatists Guild of America (DG), Authors Guild (AG), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Actors' Equity Association (AEA), and other professional guilds and organizations.

A former journalist and columnist, her nonfiction and fiction works include: Orléans Embrace and The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré, Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints, Vieux Carré Chic: The Art of Overindulgent Décor, The Pearly Gates of Purgatory Series — Baby Doll Gombo, Flambeau, Zin-Zin, Peristyle, Mascarade, Société, Procession.

A native Floridian and unique 35-yr Town of Palm Beach ("the Island") beach-block resident, with an 1850s French Quarter second home located on Bourbon Street, her homes have been celebrated and fêted by the media.

TJ is noted for her 1959 pink Cadillac Convertible named Lulabell.

Southern Author TJ, self-admittedly as irreparably complex, flawed and charismatic as her characters, is a colorful storyteller. A complex character of dichotomy…with seeming contradictions…all her virtues collide and coexist with her faults. It’s complicated but never boring.

She is a recipient of multiple literary awards. She has received five PMA Benjamin Franklin Awards, including double gold for "Best New Voice Nonfiction" and "Bill Fisher Award for Best First Nonfiction Book"; gold Ippy Award; Nautilus Book Award; two gold National Best Book Awards; Eric Hoffer Award; Southern Independent Bookseller Alliance honors, Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Faulkner-Wisdom short-list novel.

Stayed tuned! LOL. Major update breaking soon! Yours truly, in a pink-washed swampland.

Other Works

  • Vieux Carré Chic: The Art of Overindulgent Home Décor

    2010
  • Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints

    2008
  • Orléans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré

    2006