Biography
I, Lynn Scott, play many roles. These days, I am focusing on two:
- As an editor I help writers, new and seasoned, transform their non-fiction manuscripts into polished page-turners.
- As an investigator of my own life, I have developed some wisdom regarding growing older, turning grief and loss into catalysts for the next creative step.
I, Lynn Scott, am:
- The author of the memoir A Joyful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me. My book is not about the disease, but about the spirit that exists in us all as long as we live. I led my clients in singing the old familiar songs (“Take Me Out to The Ballgame,” “As Time Goes By,” “I Love You Truly”), and I reveled in the love I received and gave.
- A contributing author to The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, and Ourselves Growing Older, books by and for women, created by The Boston Women’s Health Collective; in addition to four other anthologies.
- Winner of awards for poetry, memoir, and fiction at the Jack London conference of the California Writers Club.
- Currently I am completing a memoir with a working title of memoir: Oldham Street, about landing in a small sunny neighborhood of San Francisco in 1987 on thin emotional ice. I was helped to heal from deep grief by a unique set of unlikely healers.
