I began my career in healthcare, working as a nurse in intensive care settings. As opportunities arose to write and educate my colleagues and patients, I moved into family education and completed a master’s degree in education and counseling.
After graduating, I opened my own counseling practice and became a school counselor at an independent school in Boston. My work gained national and international attention, and I began speaking and writing on preventive mental health, across the United States, and in Singapore and China. My work has appeared in Parents, Cognoscenti, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Brain, Child and more. I regularly appear as a media guest expert on television and radio to discuss contemporary family life and preventive mental health.
Always a creative person—I acted and sang beyond college—I needed another creative pursuit and turned to writing fiction. Writing as Lynne Griffin, I’m the author of the family-focused novels, Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press), Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster), and Girl Sent Away (SixOneSeven Books).
As world events shaped family life in more intense ways, I turned my attention to writing fiction with darker emotional terrain. Writing as Lynne Reeves, I write novels of domestic suspense, and I’m the author of, The Dangers of an Ordinary Night, which examines addiction in families, and Dark Rivers to Cross, which explores generational trauma (both novels from Crooked Lane Books).
Tragic Lovely Lands draws together my ancestry research, a deep dive into Irish literature, my newfound love of making art, and the complicated issue of family estrangement.
Readers can also find me online at my Substack newsletter, Family Drama, my Psychology Today blog, Field Guide to Families, and my website, LynneGriffin.com.
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Lynne Reeves Griffin’s Tragic Lovely Lands in the summer of 2028.
