Courtney S. Lennon grew up outside Buffalo, New York, and studied Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. In 2011 after predicting print media would shift to online, Courtney started online music magazine Turnstyled, Junkpiled named after the Townes Van Zandt song. She is the author of Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver (Texas A&M University Press), a book which according to Rolling Stone "aims to illustrate Shaver’s often unsung impact on country music." She currently lives in Buffalo, New York and is working on a biography on late singer-songwriter and cult-hero Daniel Johnston.