TJ was born and raised in the northeast United States. As the daughter of first generation Americans, she realized the power words held. Though she trained in photographic arts and education, the written word has consistently been one of her passions.Her first published work was a poem for New Teacher Advocate. Since then, she's journaled with her students in the classroom and with her children in their homeschool. Based on that experience, she published a manual on homeschooling entitled "The Empowered Homeschool." Her fictional debut, "Redemption Beach," is the first novel in the "Redemption Chronicles" series.TJ lives in Central Florida with her husband, two children, and two boisterous dogs, Chu Chu and Peeves.