Lynette Benton
Lynette Benton is a nonfiction writer and instructor living in Greater Boston. Two of her essays have garnered first prize or finalist status in literary contests. Two others have been anthologized. Her articles and personal essays appear in numerous online and paper publications, as well as on a literary podcast. Most recently her essays appear in the Avalon Literary Review and Passager literary journals.
Reading List
What If My Boss Had Been a White Person?
“I’m about to come through here like Sherman through Atlanta,” Timm hollered, striding across the front of the conference room on a sunny spring day. Timm was newly hired—the first African American vice president at the small New England college where I worked. With perfect posture, he was trim and immaculately decked out in a […]