Tammye has worked as a teacher, translator and copywriter. Her historical fiction debut, A More Perfect Union, won the Diverse Book Award 2021 and was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021. It was also selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club as well as for several prominent Best Books lists.

Her short stories have been published in various magazines, including Diverse Voices Quarterly, the Penman Review, and the London Magazine where her story was runner-up for the 2018 Short Story Prize.

She is a mentor and tutor for the Writing our Legacy program and an instructor for the Creative Writing Program.

Originally from the USA, Tammye moved first to Germany and then to the UK with her husband and three children where she has now lived for 25 years.