Lorraine Martin BennettLorraine Martin Bennett is a print, web and broadcast journalist who grew up in the rural Martins Creek Community near Murphy, North Carolina, graduated with her high school class journalism medal and received a scholarship to UNC Chapel Hill where se earned her degree. Her reporting career began on the Atlanta Journal where she wrote features, covered news and met her late husband Tom, also a journalist. She was hired by the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper's first woman to head a domestic bureau. She joined Ted Turner's fledgling CNN as a news writer when the burgeoning network was only three years old. There she became copy editor, producer, and editorial manager before ending her television career as a senior copy editor at CNN International. In retirement, she writes essays, short stories, flash fiction, poetry and still practices her craft by copy editing and writing for the Clay County Progress. Her essays have appeared in the Personal Story Publishing Project (Daniel Boone Footsteps, Winston-Salem, N.C.) and her poetry has been published by the Huntsville Literary Association in Huntsville, Ala. Her poetry and essays have won awards in the Cherokee and Clay County Senior Games Silver Arts division. Her first novel, a psychological thriller titled Cat on a Black Moon, was published by Austin Macauley (London, Cambridge, New York) in 2023. A sequel, Darla, was published by the same group in 2024 and a third novel, 20 Seconds to Midnight, in 2025. Reflections, a book of poetry, essays, short stories and flash fiction, published by Booklogix of Alpharetta, Ga. reflects her personal growth as poet. Her essays and short stories are largely fiction with some composite characters. Read More Read Less