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About Lynette Ingram
Lynette Easley Ingram grew up in Fredonia, Kentucky, an isolated industrial town that serves as the setting of her recently completed memoir, Flares from a Fallout Shelter. Because Fredonia was too small to support an indoor theater, her family spent summer nights at drive-in theaters in surrounding counties. In the back seat of her family car, she watched espionage movies, spellbound as the spies navigated the shadows in search of truth in a world of secrets and betrayals. When she began to write Flares from a Fallout Shelter, it seemed only natural that Alfred Hitchcock’s spy movies should play a significant role in her memoir that explores the effects of untreated suicidal depression on three generations of her family.
Lynette has worked as a university professor, an AP-awarded broadcast journalist, corporate HR executive, and a book reviewer for two major newspapers and other publications, including Mental Health Today. She has attended a number of highly regarded writing workshops and studied with Elizabeth Strout, Maria Flook, Dorothy Allison, and Susan Choi, among others. At present, she teaches creative writing to adult learners.
The first four chapters of Flares from a Fallout Shelter received an award for Best Manuscript Sample at the Atlanta Writers Conference in 2018. The full manuscript was longlisted for the 2022 CIBA Journey Award for Narrative Nonfiction.