Contributing Artists
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Lynell George is a Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist. Her work explores social issues and human behavior, as well as urban histories, visual art, music and literature. A former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly, her pieces have appeared in Sierra, Alta Journal, New York Times, Preservation, Oxford American, among other publications.
She has taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University and was also a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow. In 2017, she received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler, and has earned multiple L.A.Press Club awards for arts, culture and digital storytelling. Her liner notes for Otis Redding Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings won a GRAMMY in 2017. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels, After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, and her most recent title, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler was a 2021 Hugo Award Finalist. lynellgeorge.com // @lynellgeorgewriter |
