Lynell George

Lynell George is an award-winning Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist and author. Her work explores social issues, identity and human behavior as well as urban histories, visual art, music and literature. A former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly, George's work has appeared in Alta Journal, Boom: A Journal of California, Preservation, Smithsonian, Oxford American, High Country News among other publications. She has taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University (2009-2011) and was also a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow (2013). She received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler in 2017 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 (Verso), After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame (Angel City Press) and her most recent—A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler (Angel City Press), published in 2020, was a 2021 Hugo Award Finalist.