Lynell George is a journalist and essayist. After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame was her first book of essays and photography, exploring the city where she grew up. As a staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly, she focused on social issues, human behavior, visual arts, music, and literature. She taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, in 2013 was named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow, and in 2017 received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler. Her commentary, essays, and profiles have been featured in numerous news and feature outlets including the New York Times, Alta: Journal of California, Sierra, Smithsonian, Essence, Vibe, Preservation, and American Scholar. Her liner notes for Otis Redding Live at the Whiskey a Go Go earned a 2017 GRAMMY and her book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, was a 2021 Hugo Award finalist.