Lynne Barrett
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Lynne Barrett is an American writer and editor, best known for her short stories.
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[edit] Background
Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a B.A. in English Composition from Mount Holyoke College and her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
[edit] Career
Her story, “Elvis Lives”, was awarded the 1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America for Best Mystery Short Story and has been widely anthologized.[1] “Beauty” won the Best Short Story Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in 2001. She has received an NEA (1991),[2] and an artist's fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (2001–02).[3] Her short stories have appeared in Redbook, twice in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine,[4] Mondo Barbie (St. Martin's), Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay (HarperCollins), Simply the Best Mysteries (Carroll & Graf), Irrepressible Appetites (Rock Press), Marilyn: Shades of Blonde (Forge) and many other magazines and anthologies. Recent stories have appeared in A Dixie Christmas (Algonquin Books, 2005), Miami Noir (Akashic Books, 2006), One Year to a Writing Life (Marlowe & Company, 2007), and Delta Blues (Tyrus Books, 2010).[5][6]
She wrote the libretto for the children's opera Cricketina. She has co-edited a collection of James M. Cain's nonfiction and Birth: A Literary Companion, an anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction about becoming a parent. She founded Gulf Stream Magazine and went on to edit it from 1989–2002.
Her essay "What Editors Want", published by The Review Review, earned coverage in the L.A. Times Book Blog "Jacket Copy" and the New Yorker's The Book Bench blog. It was republished in Glimmer Train's Bulletin.
Barrett is founder and editor of FloridaBookReview.com and Professor of English at Florida International University where she teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing.
[edit] Works
- The Land of Go (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1988)
- The Secret Names of Women (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon, 1999), a BookSense selection of the American Booksellers Association
- Magpies (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon, 2011)
- Cricketina (opera libretto), with music composed by Dr. Kristine Burns, debuted at the FIU Music Festival, Nov. 15, 2003, Miami, FL
- The James M. Cain Cookbook, Guide to Home Singing, Physical Fitness and Animals (Especially Cats) (Carnegie Mellon 1988) ed. by Roy Hoopes and Lynne Barrett
- Birth: A Literary Companion (University of Iowa Press, 2002) ed by Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett
[edit] Notes
- ^ Edgar Awards, 1946-2005
- ^ NEA newsletter 2006 page 12
- ^ Poets & Writers 2001
- ^ The Mystery Place
- ^ Delta Blues review
- ^ Interview with Lynne Barrett
