Lynette Washington is a short story writer, editor and teacher of creative and professional writing. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide.

Her stories have been published widely and in 2014 she edited the story collection, Breaking Beauty. In 2017 she co-edited the story collection, Crush. Her debut novel, Plane Tree Drive was published in November 2017.

When Lynette is not writing, she teaches police cadets the importance of sentence structure and grammar.