Lynn Phillips

In the late 1960s, Lynn joined The Newsreel, a collective of independent filmmakers, photographers, and media workers formed to make politically relevant films. She was the first woman to edit a Newsreel film, The Columbia Revolt.

She wrote and illustrated a children's book for the daughters of feminists, Exactly Like Me, and is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975.

Lynn wrote and edited for film, television, print, and online media over the course of several decades. She was a staff writer for the groundbreaking Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, produced by Norman Lear. She wrote for publications such as Glamour, The Harvard Lampoon, The Realist, The Nation, Nerve, The New York Times' T Magazine, Psychology Today, and Newsweek International. In the 1990s, she served as editor-in-chief of vaguepolitix. com, a website originally hosted by PBS,org, and also wrote erotic political satire under the pen name Maggie Cutler. Additional work included songs, television and film treatments, several musicals and screenplays, as well as an operetta, I Ching, cowritten with Galt MacDermot. Lynn wrote Self-Loathing for Beginners, which Library Journal described as "A gleefully sardonic guide to self-condemnation and disapproval. " She was coauthor, with Diane Hartford, Rusty Unger, and Milo Steale, of How to Be a Mogul.

She was the cofounder, coeditor, and writer for Getting It Gazette, the women's newsletter for Republican and Democratic delegates in 1992 and 1996, and the creator of The Lordville Bridge, a humorous and acutely observant quarterly about the colorful residents and peculiar happenings in the namesake town near the headwaters of the Delaware River.