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TJ Sullivan is a national award-winning writer and author of the novel "Boon" [published 02/16/2010].
A former staff reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican, The Albuquerque Tribune, and the Ventura County (CA) Star, he's also written for NBC, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and the public affairs Web site LA Observed. In 2009, he intiated the KnowNewspapers Petition, a nationwide effort to promote the importance of newspaper journalism to American democracy. The associated Web site remains online at this link.
He's a recipient of the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award, the second-oldest national journalism award after the Pulitzer Prize. Other state and national honors that have recognized Sullivan's writing include first-place awards from Best of the West, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the Associated Press News Executive Council and the Los Angeles Press Club.
A University of Kentucky alumnus, Sullivan was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 2006. Sullivan has also been a journalism fellow at the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at USC and studied at the American Press Institute, the New York Writers Workshop, and The Henry Miller Library's Big Sur Writing Workshop, among others.
As a lecturer, Sullivan has been featured at conferences conducted by both The Poynter Institute and the national Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, Sullivan was selected in 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists to serve as an adviser to The Working Press, an internship program for college-level student journalists.
Sullivan has taught journalism courses and coached writers at UCLA's award-winning student newspaper, The Daily Bruin. Sullivan has also taught journalism as a part-time faculty member in the Journalism Department at California State University, Northridge.
In addition to writing fiction, Sullivan continues to do media consulting and to lecture, shoot photographs and publish as an independent journalist and blogger.
Contact info is available at this link.
