I have been telling stories for almost as long as I have been able to hold a pencil.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, I spent much of my childhood traveling across the United States and Canada, watching unfamiliar landscapes pass beyond the car window and quietly collecting the people, places, and questions that would later find their way into my writing. By the age of nine, I was reading my stories aloud to classmates during circle time. Before graduating from high school, I had written more than one hundred stories and novels, all by hand. The longest stretched across 2,243 pages, proving early that brevity was never going to be my natural habitat.

My love of history began just as young. At twelve, I began studying the Holocaust, a subject that profoundly shaped both my understanding of human resilience and my belief that stories can keep people from disappearing. That interest eventually led me to visit Auschwitz and Dachau, interview Holocaust survivors, organize educational events, and write novels rooted in historical memory.

Today, I write emotionally immersive fiction about survival, silence, belonging, and the complicated ways people carry one another through darkness. My books often explore communities shaped by secrets, characters who have been overlooked or misunderstood, and the thin but stubborn thread of hope that survives even when a life does not unfold neatly.

My novels include The Character, Broken, Dance for Me, River’s Rowan, Remember the Nightingale, Whisperroot, and Echoes of a Wild Girl’s Drum, along with numerous other works of historical, literary, and character-driven fiction. Though my stories travel through different eras, countries, cultures, and imagined worlds, they are united by one central concern: what happens inside a person when the world has failed to protect them, and what becomes possible when someone finally chooses to see them?

In Whisperroot, two sisters grow up in a town where silence has become a kind of law and the forest remembers what the people would rather forget. In Echoes of a Wild Girl’s Drum, a girl condemned by her village finds refuge in the forest and in the heart of the boy who once interrupted her death sentence with the beat of a drum. Both novels reflect my fascination with collective memory, moral courage, complicity, and the emotional lives of people history might otherwise reduce to a footnote.

I am also a longtime survivor advocate. For more than twenty years, I have volunteered with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, supporting survivors through the National Sexual Assault Hotline. I have served as a medical accompaniment volunteer, a Guardian ad Litem, a member of the RAINN Speakers Bureau, and a certified trauma-informed life coach. My advocacy and my fiction are deeply connected by the same conviction: being witnessed matters. Being believed matters. A story told with honesty can become a hand reaching through the dark.

I do not write simple stories about becoming fearless. I write about people who remain afraid and still act, who love imperfectly, who survive unevenly, and who discover that healing is rarely a straight road. My characters may be wounded, furious, tender, strange, hopeful, or haunted. Often, they are all of those things before breakfast.

Although I now live in Florida, I still consider the Nashville area home. When I am not writing, researching an obscure historical event, rearranging an imaginary village, or arguing with a fictional character who has refused to follow the outline, I enjoy traveling, spending time with my two daughters, and connecting with readers who believe stories can do more than entertain.

For me, storytelling is both an art and an act of remembrance. It is a way of asking difficult questions without insisting upon easy answers. Most of all, it is an invitation: to enter someone else’s world, stay long enough to understand what they carry, and leave seeing humanity a little differently.

Tiffini Is:

  • Certified as a MAP (certified medical accompaniment person)
  • Certified as a GAL (Guardian ad Litem) serving children in dependency care
  • Compassion-focused, trauma-informed coach by Soul Institute
  • Trauma-Informed Certified Coach by International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine
  • Certified in breathwork
  • Volunteer as a hotline specialist for RAINN
  • Member of the RAINN Speaker Bureau
  • Member of the Board of Directors for ANA’s Friends
  • Creator of the HERO and ashRISE workshops for survivors
  • Author of 16 Published Books
  • Facilitator of the online book club, Chapter Chats


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