Lynn Oldshue is the creator of Our Southern Souls and tells the stories of the people she meets across the south over the last six years. She is also a journalist for The Lagniappe newspaper and Alabama Public Radio. Lynn grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi and fell in love with the Mobile, Alabama area, where she currently resides. In 2019, her series about domestic violence, “From Hell to Hope”, won first place in feature writing from the Alabama Press Association. “Sexual Slavery in South Alabama”, Lynn’s series on sex trafficking, won the Medical Association for the State of Alabama’s 2020 William H. Johnson Print Journalism Award. The series also won second place in feature writing for the Green Eyeshade Awards, which recognize excellence in journalism in the southeast. She was part of the APR team that won a national Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a documentary on the long-term impact of the BP oil spill. She has two boys and enjoys wandering, photography, and riding her horse.