Lynell George

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Lynell George is an L.A. based, journalist and essayist. Currently an arts and culture columnist for KCET’s Artbound, she has had a long career in L.A. journalism as staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly – focusing on social issues, human behavior and identity politics as well as visual arts, music and literature. She has taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University and is also a Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow and a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow (2013). She is also the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso/Doubleday), a collection of features and essays drawn from her reporting.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2015*

Best American Essays 2019*

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