JT Tierney’s novels focus on resilient, sharp-witted women navigating the messy realities of starting over when life turns in unexpected directions.

His fourth novel, Perfect Plans, received the 2025 Reedsy Discovery Editor’s Choice Award. 

He lives outside Chicago with his wife of 43 years and their Great Pyrenees. He's now working on a novel set in Washington DC in the 1950s, featuring three women working to break open a huge political scandal.  

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