Lynn Hunter Swan was born in Lowell, Indiana but came to Iowa to attend Drake U. where she met and married an Iowa State senior who swept her off her feet and carried her off to a farm in Dickens (Northwest) Iowa. She eventually earned her B.A. from Buena Vista U. in Music Education with a minor in Art where she first discovered a fascination with weaving. Her formal Art training added new dimensions to her life-long love of textiles and sewing.

After semi-retiring from a 28 year career as an interior designer, for many years owner of Lynn Hunter Swan Interiors in Spencer, she is returning to playing with strands of what ever catches her fancy, primarily collages of paper, etc. and also Crazy Patch quilting.  Her work appears in galleries in Spencer, and Spirit Lake, Iowa.