Lynell George is an award-winning Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist and author. A former staff writer for both Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly, her work explores social issues and human behavior as well as urban histories, visual art, music and literature. She has taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University (2009-2011) and was also a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow (2013). and received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler in 2017. She was a recipient of the National Association of Black Journalists’ award for Hard Features and earned a 2019 and 2020 Los Angeles Press Club for Arts/Culture Feature. 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 Hugo Award Finalist.