Award-winning author, Lynne Podrat graduated from the Pennsylvania State University and spent fifteen years in the Fashion Industry as an Assistant Buyer and Department Manager with Bloomingdales Department Store before returning to school to receive her educational degrees from Arcadia University and Gynedd Mercy. A retired educator and Administrator from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania School District, she taught English, literature, composition, and history in elementary and secondary schools. She has secretly been a writer and poet her whole life. Still, she has only recently chosen to share those talents with the world, receiving Gold from the Nonfiction Authors Association and Silver from Global Book Awards for her memoir Listen to Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life,
Gold from Literary Titans and the recent winner of International Book Awards for her children’s book My Sister Wants an Elephant. Lynne now lives with her husband in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, spending winters dragon boating where her heart races and summers hiking the Rockies in Vail, Colorado, where her heart sings.
Award-winning author, Lynne Podrat graduated from the Pennsylvania State University and spent fifteen years in the Fashion Industry as an Assistant Buyer and Department Manager with Bloomingdales Department Store before returning to school to receive her educational degrees from Arcadia University and Gynedd Mercy. A retired educator and Administrator from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania School District, she taught English, literature,...
I hadn’t gone looking to write a book. And although I love to write, especially poetry, and editorial responses of educational articles, writing can be arduous and was never cathartic for me. I would rather take pictures. My dream was to be a veterinarian, to heal, support positive training, and be the voice for those who spoke a different language. God had that same plan, albeit a very different path.
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May 3, 2025, my oldest grandaughter became a Bat Mitzvah, when a Jewish girl turns 13 and becomes a "women" expected to now honor all Jewish Law. What a special time for our...
