Darla

Lorraine Martin Bennett is a print, web and broadcast journalist who grew up in Murphy, North Carolina, graduated with her high school class journalism medal and received a scholarship to the University of North Carolina where she earned her degree in journalism. Her career began on the Atlanta Journal writing features, covering news, and meeting her husband, whose job took them to the west coast. She was hired by the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper's first woman to head a domestic bureau. The Bennetts returned to Atlanta where she joined fledgling CNN as a news writer, becoming copy editor, producer and editorial manager before ending her career at CNN International. There she was senior copy editor of a morning show airing in Hong Kong. She retired to the western North Carolina mountains where she writes poetry, essays, short stories and works at a local weekly newspaper.