Lynne is also the editor of Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada. She began her journalism career in 1968 and worked for two decades at several daily newspapers in Alberta. She can be heard as a book reviewer and cultural commentator on CBC Radio. She has a PhD in Canadian Literature with a focus on feminism in Canadian Drama, and is the co-editor of Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada. She writes a twice-monthly column on "books and ideas" in the Times-Colonist.