Lynn Litterine received an M.A. in fiction in 1998. The title of her thesis manuscript was Story. She came to Temple from a long career as a journalist. She has been a writer and editor at newspapers such as The Hudson Dispatch, The Bergen Record, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She does freelance writing through an editorial agency and at venues that include The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Department of Health and Human Services. She has published hundreds of newspaper articles. She currently teaches in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland.