Lynn Lipinski is a content strategist, writer and editor drawing upon 25+ years of experience in public relations to help organizations and individuals meet established communications objectives. She’s developed persuasive and impactful content for website launches and redesigns, social media campaigns, email newsletters and marketing, and print publications.
She earned stripes at Los Angeles PR agencies promoting dog food, water vending machines and law firms. Recent projects include helping to develop a content management strategy and new content for a technical website containing more than 22,000 web pages and serving as Source Magazine editor for four years. She spent ten years working for the Metropolitan Water District for Southern California, primarily managing its multi-million dollar bewaterwise.com conservation campaign.
She earned a master of fine arts in creative writing from Mount St. Mary’s University and a bachelor’s degree in business from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Her techno-thriller God of the Internet was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2016.
Writing Samples:
News: USC News
Department of Nursing’s Family Practitioner Program Earns National Accreditation, June 2018
First Graduates From Online Doctorate Program Turn Theory Into Practice, May 2018
USC’s First Online Master’s in Nursing Students Graduate, May 2018
I Dance, Therefore I Am, April 2018
Dance’s Glorya Kaufman Sees Passion Come Alive in Arts Students, March 2017
Year in Review: Generosity of USC’s Friends Makes a Lasting Difference, December 2016
Giving Away Real Money Raises Stakes for USC Students, December 2016
Landscape Architects See Los Angeles as Living Lab in Combatting Climate Change, October 2016
USC Scientists Train the Next Generation of Researchers, June 2016
Magazines: Trojan Family Magazine
The Campaign for USC Hits $6 Billion And Keeps on Going, Summer 2017, cover story
How Parents Can Help Kids Deal With Divorce, Summer 2017
USC Empowers a New Generation of Social Workers, Spring 2017
Student, Servicewoman, and Social Worker, Spring 2017
Rick Caruso Honored with 2017 Asa V. Call Award, Spring 2017
Rod Nakamoto Takes Helm of USCAA’s Governing Board, Autumn 2016
The Roski Family Puts Eye Care Solutions in Sight, Autumn 2016
The Unexpected Journey of Stephen Guy, Spring 2016
Trojan Fulbright Scholars Gain a Global Outlook, Winter 2015
A Sustainable USC, Autumn 2015
The Popoviches: Six Decades as a Trojan Family, Autumn 2015
Website Content: Bewaterwise.com Garden Guide; Test4HepC.org; Infinity Footwear
Keynote Speech: The Internet and USC’s Information Sciences Institute: Four Decades of Innovation
Annual Financial Reports: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers FY 2017, FY 2016, FY 2015, FY 2014, FY 2013, FY 2012, and FY2011.
Short fiction, poetry and book reviews:
“Surprise” (short story), Meluzína, literary magazine of the Prague Summer Program for Writers, July 2018
Book Review: Appalachian Alchemy by Barlow Adams, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, forthcoming October 2018
“Cure for Lunacy,” “List of Trees, “Valley of Death,” and “Last Rites” (poems), UCity Review, June 2018
Book Review: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld, The Same, March 2018
“Boggle on the Train” (short story), The Rush, February 2018
“The Dying Kind” (short story), Honorable Mention, 2017 Literary Competition, The Woven Tale Press (also published in The Woven Tale Press January 2018 issue)
“God in the Waiting Room” (short story), published at ImageCurve, November 2017
“Elegy,” “How to Make It In Business,” and “Child Saint” (poems), The Write Launch, September 2017
“Shock” (poem), published in Birds Piled Loosely, 2016 Election Anthology, January 2017
“Write Your Stories” (personal essay), published in Give Yourself Permission Anthology, November 2016
“Sparrow” and “Broken Glass” (short fiction), published in The Woven Tale Press Selected Works, December 2015
“The Golden Voice of Salif Keita” (profile), published in Give Yourself Permission magazine, Fall 2015
“Racing the 500” (short story), winner of Wimmer Fiction Competition, Los Angeles Valley College, Spring 2015
“Surprise,” published in Manuscript 50, Los Angeles Valley College, Spring 2015
“Car Chase” (short story), ImageCurve, December 2014