Tina Foster Caldwell approaches writing through the lens of Appalachia. She grew up in the mountains of West Virginia, then raised a family in the rolling hills of Tennessee.

With undergraduate and graduate degrees from the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism, Marshall University, Tina has been an Addy Award-winning copywriter, a humor columnist and freelance writer. She has published in such outlets as Nashville Parent Magazine, Weavings, Untelling and Women Speak. Her novel, Hollow, placed third in Book Length Prose at the West Virginia Writers, Inc. 2025 Annual Writers Competition. Her short story Gracie Waves placed first in 2026.

Tina is a member of West Virginia Writers, Inc., The Porch, and a participant of the Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman Settlement School, MTSU: Write, and the West Virginia Writers Conference.

Tina resides in Nashville with her husband and an old, gassy golden retriever. She talks to her two grown-ass children every day.