writer and memoir author
Connie Fisher
About.
While she roamed the country coast to coast, after returning to the USA and eventually other countries of the world, she continued writing about her personal, family, and corporate adventures.
She received the Dallas Press Club’s prestigious Katie Award, their brand of an Oscar statuette. In 1984, The Dallas International Association of Business Communicators, IABC, named Connie Communicator of the Year.
Connie wrote Doing it the Right Way, the biography of a prestigious Italian hatmaker John Milano. Her work appears in The Widows’ Handbook, an anthology about the stages of recovery and mourning. Come Fly With Me, her children’s fantasy treasure hunt in pursuit of worldly delicacies was written for her newborn granddaughter, Laura, who needed to gain enough weight for surgery to repair a birth defect.
Connie Fisher’s most recent book, The Mongrel, Bi-cultural Adventures of a Latina-Scandinavian Youth, has just been published by The Bridge of Cornelius, North Carolina. In the book’s fifty lively chapters, Connie writes about the mischief and adventures she enjoyed growing up abroad.
The theatre has always played a major role in Connie Fisher’s life, not onstage but as the critic of a show. Connie’s theatrical critiques resurfaced in the Connecticut press during the 1970s and continue to appear in North Carolina’s Lake Norman media, where she has made her home since 2007. Currently, her reviews are published in the columns of the electronic website News of Davidson.
Connie Carmona Fisher is the mother of four children, and has nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, most of whom recently converged to celebrate her milestone birthday on the stage of Davidson’s community theatre.
Connie is a Charlotte Writers’ Club member and a founding member of Lake Norman Writers.
Connie Fisher has been writing most of her life. As a high school student in Mexico City, where her family had moved at the onset of World War II, Connie’s bi-weekly column, “American Highlights,” ran in the English pages of the Mexican press, launching her career as a journalist. She became a staff reporter for the social pages of the English-language tabloid The News upon graduation from the American High School and as a journalism student at Mexico City College. “Around the Town with Connie Carmona” became her new hallmark column.
The eldest of a family of six children, Consuelo Carmona was eight years old when her bi-cultural family migrated from California to Mexico, where she grew up. Connie’s Scandinavian mother came from Finnish parents, and her Latino father was born in Chile.
Eager to broaden her horizons, Connie returned to the United States, where she has lived coast to coast and abroad, always searching for the place where she belongs. She identifies with a mongrel— “any cross between different things…of mixed breed, nature or origin,” according to a Random House Dictionary. The unrelenting spirit of Connie’s mongrel heart longed for adventure.
Connie has received over 50 awards throughout her career, including–
Communicator of the Year Award. 1984.
Dallas International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Katie Award for Best Corporate Magazine. 1984.
Press Club of Dallas. Access Northern Telecom, Inc.
Katie Award for Best Slide or Multi-Image Production. 1988.
Press Club of Dallas. An American Discovery Ericsson Network Systems.