Lynn Job (pronounced with a long "o")  is an American woman composer, scholar, poet and thespian born on the great plains of South Dakota. She is an emerging composer with an active commissions roster and many societal affiliations and appointments including editorial boards. She is often seen at national and international academic conferences and arts residencies & she is scheduled for several concert music premieres & broadcasts in Europe and the U.S. in 2006-2007. Among her many honors, she attended a 4-day festival of her works Jubilantly Job! Music Festival at the U. of Central Oklahoma, February 7-10, 2003, held by faculty & clinicians from both coasts presenting 18 of her titles. She is in the 2005 & 2006 Marquis Who's Who of American Women (24th & 25th eds.), the 2006 Marquis Who's Who in the World (23rd ed.), as well as in several on-line international composer databases such as the Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Composers Bureau and the American Music Center.

Dr. Job graduated from California State University Fullerton & the University of North Texas spending summers in Europe, and was decorated in the U. S. Army Reserves during the Persian Gulf War. She continues to win awards from the American Music Center & ASCAP, and is often requested as an interdisciplinary guest lecturer. Most of her hundred music titles to date are large-scale mystic works with pre-compositional designs that required years of background research and planning making her of interest to musicologists, theorists and theologians alike - the subject of several articles. Lynn Job is the founding artist of Buckthorn Studios and her music publishes exclusively through Buckthorn Music Press (ASCAP). Her music can be searched by keywords or instrumentation at the American Music Center in NYC (ref: www.newmusicjukebox.org).

An active writer, Lynn Job was poet-in-residence in County Clare, Ireland (April, 1999): a month at Salmon Publishing by the Cliffs of Moher (published by the U. of Mary Hardin-Baylor) traveling and meeting many of Ireland's finest poets at the Tinity College Dublin Symposium "The Muse and the Mirror," later participating in the 2002 "Teaching Poetry: a symposium for poets & teachers" in Santa Rosa, CA with NEA Chair Dana Gioia. In May, 2001 she assisted author Gene Cho's exchange students at the Taiwan College of Arts in Taipei/Panchiao, Taiwan studying Chinese folk instruments and culture. Acting on her passion for adventure, Dr. Job found artifacts for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem as a member of the 1989 Judean Desert Exploration and Excavation Project at the Dead Sea (published in Biblical Archaeology Review). This Qumran expedition experience still informs and inspires much of her creative work, including her mystic poetry and her largest music work in progress, publishing in sections, "ELATIO: Praises & Prophecies" (tenor & contralto soloists, men's & women's choruses, & reduced orchestra featuring celesta and vibraphone).

Among her many other interests are: the music and art of comparative religions; ethnomusicology of the Middle East, Far East and Native North America; pictograph linguistics; semitic myth and textology; renaissance aesthetics of England, Burgundy & Italy; iconography; arts biography; and metaphysics. She currently makes her home in the North Texas metroplex.