Award-Winning
Professional Freelance Writer
Graham Fysh
GRAHAM FYSH is a writer based in Seattle, Washington.
Over the course of
a long career, he has written for numerous publications, including
newspapers and magazines. He has worked as a journalist in the United
States and South Africa and is the author of seven books.
He runs his own
company, LifeTime Creations, providing writing, editing, layout and
publishing services for newspapers, magazines and newsletters.
He has a B.A. degree from the University of Cape Town, an M.S. degree in
journalism (with honors) from Columbia University and an M.A. degree
from the University of Washington.
South African-born
Born
and raised in South Africa, he covered politics at the time of
apartheid for several South African newspapers and news magazines. He
was political reporter for the Financial Mail in Johannesburg before
moving to the United States.
Business writer and assistant professor
After obtaining a master's degree from the University of Washington, he served from 1983 to 1986 as business editor at the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
After a 2-year stint teaching journalism at Lehigh
University in Bethlehem, Penn., he joined The News Tribune in Tacoma,
Washington in 1988, where he worked as business editor and later as a
writer, specializing in small business, the economy and finance.
During that time he won an award from the Small Business Administration
for being judged the best small business writer of the year in the
Pacific Northwest.
Investment writer
Graham worked from 2001 to October 2006 as an investment writer at Russell
Investments in Tacoma, Wash. Today he runs his writing and publishing company, LifeTime Creations,
full-time. His books include Sent to Kill: The shocking true story behind an African colonial war. The book is not only a riveting
read, but also a case study in cultural conflict, war and colonialism.
He is also the author of How to turn dotCom into dotCash; 10 Proven Steps to small business success; Mr. Markew's Secrets of Sermon Success: Strategies you can use to create remarkable messages, and Massacre at Dimawe Hill: How a Bible view ignited a war.
He and his wife Marcia live in Silverdale, near Seattle, and have three
married children — Steve, Carolyn and Gavin — seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
For more details, please see LifeTime Creations.