So she enrolled in a creative writing course and got hooked. This is when it occurred to her that every book she was reading for the college literature courses she was taking, even all the other books she had read throughout her life was written by a real person, not by some literary god of some kind. The only thing she had done during through all of it was read. By the time she went to college, she wanted to be an artist, but found she was much better at being a failed artist. During high school she wanted to play tennis while at Wimbledon. During grade school, she wanted to be the very first female shortstop for the New York Yankees. When she was growing up she was too busy attempting to break her small tomboy neck to have any desires to be a writer.
All of these lead her right to Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird before she started studying American Literature in college and beyond. Lynda has won residencies and awards from the Writers League of Texas, the Illinois Arts Council, Ragdale Foundation, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Sewanee Writers Conference.Įarly on, she was inspired by every Superman comic that was in her father’s drug store, and all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy mystery novel in her tiny town’s Carnegie Public Library. She has an MA in American literature, and an MFA in creative writing. Over the years, however, her creative writing was the place that she dreamed and played, where she was able to write to learn what she knows. She has also created book-length nonfiction some prominent organizations like the San Diego Zoo Global and Habitat for Humanity. She’s written articles for international and national publications, like the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Post, Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and San Diego Union-Tribune, as well as many more with her travel pictures often appearing with her words. Lynda has been a professional writer for over two decades, working as a film and restaurant reviewer, copywriter, nonfiction author, book collaborator, travel writer, and freelance journalist. Author Lynda Rutledge, who is a lifelong animal lover, has had the joy of snorkeling with endangered turtles, petting baby rhinos, hang-glided off of a tiny Swiss mountain, and strolling around with a tower of giraffes.Īll of which during an eclectic freelance career writing nonfiction for some well-known organizations and publications as she won residencies and awards for her fiction work.
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