In 2000, she released The Color of My Words, a novella written for children that features a child protagonist and her life in the Dominican Republic. In 1998, Joseph released Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story, a children's book about two sisters during the Trinidad Carnival time, and Fly, Bessie, Fly, a children's book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman aviator. In 1994, she also released Jasmine's Parlour Day, a children's book featuring a story of a mother and daughter. In 1992, she released An Island Christmas, describing a Trinidad Christmas from the child narrator's perspective. In 1991, she released A Wave in Her Pocket: Stories from Trinidad, a children's book of folklore from Trinidad, and released The Mermaid's Twin Sister: More Stories from Trinidad in 1994. In 1990, Joseph published the children's book Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems, featuring 13 poems narrated by a child describing her life in Trinidad. During her career as an attorney, she worked for the City of New York in litigation, and for Rohn & Carpenter, a law firm based in the U.S.

After college, she worked as an editorial assistant at Harper & Row Children's Books. in 1986 and from Fordham University Law School with a J.D. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. She wrote poems and stories as a student and published her work in student publications. After moving to the United States with her family, she visited Trinidad during summers. Lynn Joseph was born in Trinidad and moved to the United States when she was nine years old. Her novella The Color of My Words won an Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Lynn Joseph is an author of children's books and an American lawyer.

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