Lynn Ermann

New York, NY USA
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ermannjournal/home
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Professional Experience

DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR & WRITING COACH for individual authors and on contract for editorial services; FREELANCE WRITER of features and essays published in magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Daily News, ARTnews, Architectural Record, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and E-The Environmental Magazine; GRAPHIC NOVEL SCRIPT WRITER of an environmental detective story for Middle Grade readers (on submission); RESEARCHER, project on mental health respite pilot program; ADVOCACY WRITER of fundraising narrative for Henry Street Settlement about anti-gang initiative involving kids running their own government; VIDEO TESTIMONY COLLECTOR/COORDINATOR for Police Reform Organizing Project involving outreach/collaboration with impacted communities to identify/interview 100+ victims of NYPD abuses; LITERACY PROGRAM ASSISTANT at the New York Public Library

Expertise

Editor
7 Years
Writer
22 Years

Industries


Newspaper - National
17 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
15 Years
Book publishing - all
8 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

22 Years

Work Samples

New York City

FEATURE: "The Power of Water" for The New York Times
(The New York Times, City Weekly 5/2/1999)
FEATURE: "Beyond the Sock Market" for The New York Times
(The New York Times, City Weekly 8/8/1999)

History

NARRATIVE: "Learning Freedom in Captivity" for The Washington Post Magazine
(The Washington Post Magazine 12/4/2020)
FEATURE: "In Hartford, A World Bizarre" for The Washington Post
(The Washington Post 1/27/1998)

Family

MEMOIR: "Left Behind" for The Washington Post Magazine
(The Washington Post Magazine 9/3/2005)
ESSAY: "When Parents Leave The Nest" for The New York Times
(The New York Times 12/27/2020)
FLASH STORY: "Imprinted" for themed submission call, Every Day Fiction
(Every Day Fiction 1/4/2021)

Exotic Animals

FEATURE: "Silent Auction: Mangy Elk and Crippled Camels" for The Wall Street Journal
(The Wall Street Journal 10/27/1996)
FEATURE: "Wild In The Streets" for New York Daily News
(New York Daily News 10/26/1998)

Vanity

ESSAY: "To The Beauties Go The Spoils" for The San Francisco Chronicle
(SF 5/2/2001)
ESSAY/FEATURE: "Could You Live For A Week Without A Mirror?" for Glamour Magazine
(glamour 12/27/2020)

Advocacy

FUNDRAISING NARRATIVE: excerpts from "Where Kids Rule: A Campaign for Hearts, Minds, and Lives at the Boys & Girls Republic of New York"
(Henry Street Settlement 1/2/2010)
TESTIMONY: playlist from a community impacted by abusive NYPD policies
(PROP 1/1/2021)
(click on title not PDF)

Home

FEATURE: "On Top of Mt. Slag, Homes Sprout" for front page of NYT HOME section
(NYT 10/28/2018)
"My Neighborhood" column for NYT Real Estate section
(The New York Times 1/3/2021)
essay included in NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF NEW YORK: Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present, Hachette, 2009

Art & Architecture

FEATURE: "Technology Transfer Remains A Nascent Movement" for Architectural Record Magazine
(Architectural Record 10/1/2003)
FEATURE:"They Have Jobs On The Slide" for The Washington Post
(The Washington Post Magazine 2/14/1999)