TJ Butler

TJ Butler divides her time between a sailboat and a tiny house. She writes fiction and essays that are not all fun and games. Her black & white photography mimics the gritty nature often found in her writing.

She has a BA in a field she probably won’t return to. Her work appears in a variety of media outlets and literary journals.

TJ is a cheese enthusiast. She was crowned Miss Virginia Beach in a shopping mall pageant when she was three, and she was one of those kids who wanted to be a writer when they grow up. She’s held numerous jobs from dishwasher to magician’s assistant to office worker bee. She was a cat person until she was a dog person, and she once ate shark but found that it tasted too much like a predator.

She and her husband are both corporate dropouts. They have a puppersnapper named Sylvie and they own a business that supports the arts.