She shared her experiences through pieces published under the name Tia Wallman, including a memoir about searching for her father in Saigon during the Vietnam War in Granta.

[3] In 1970 she graduated high school and then worked for Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City for six months, before moving to Paris.

[4] She learned to play the guitar[1] and spent most of her time at a record shop in the Latin Quarter, Disco'Thé, where she occasionally sang.

[6] In an afternoon, she recorded an album of public domain folk songs and ballads under the name Tia Blake,[4] with her group supporting her.

[7] Wallman later provided backing vocals for the song "Boule Qui Roule" on Daniel Lavoie's 1979 Nirvana Bleu album.

[2] She published, as Tia Wallman, two pieces in Granta, the first of which was a memoir about a trip to Saigon with her sister, during the Vietnam War, to find her father who worked for the CIA, and the second appeared posthumously.

[9] In 2006, a comedy piece she co-wrote with her mother, Joan Blake, was staged at the 2007 New York Fringe Festival, lasting for 10 minutes.

[10] The Tia Blake Collection is held at Wilson Library in North Carolina, comprising audio recordings, images, documents, and written works by Wallman.