Biography
Lynne McNamara has lived a rich and full life. As a teacher and administrative director in the field of international education, she has wandered and lived in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—all gifting her the music of lives lived differently than within her US home. Living and working in Italy, Egypt, and Japan gave her the opportunity and gift of understanding other cultures. In accepting other realities, she opened her belief systems to the wide world of diversity in humanity.
In her mid-life journaling, she saw the poetic elements in her writing and began expanding her word artistry. Besides teaching writing and poetry, she established poetry readings at Temple University Japan in Tokyo and at the University of Maryland University College (now the University of Maryland Global Campus). Recently she served as a judge of poetry for the Art in Public Places Program, in Loveland, Colorado, and for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
As an emerging author in later life, she treasures her time to write and reflect. Lynne loves to be immersed with family, friends, nature, and sunsets as well as gourmet food, all of which contribute to her writing poetry that moves her toward other. For Lynne, poetry is word art, painting the multidimensional flows of life to share with others in their own quests for understanding.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in Italian with a minor in Spanish and her Master’s in Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder. She was the youngest faculty member at CU Boulder as an Instructor in the Department of Italian at the age of 22. In her late 40s, she pursued and completed a PhD in Educational Administration and Higher Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Her life has been a history of opening new doors and following paths not paved.
