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TJ Sullivan is a Los Angeles-based writer and award-winning, independent journalist whose work has appeared in many publications (magazines and newspapers) from coast to coast, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Detroit News, Dallas Morning News, Orlando Sentinel, and Albuquerque Tribune.
The Sigma Delta Chi Award, the second-oldest national journalism award after the Pulitzer Prize, tops the list of state and national honors that have recognized Sullivan's work during a career that has included more than 15 years of full-time experience in newsrooms. Other honors 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 has 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.
Having just completed a second novel, Sullivan is at work on a third book and continues to consult, lecture, shoot photographs and write as an independent journalist and blogger.
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