Lynne Barrett Explained

Lynne Barrett is an American writer and editor, best known for her short stories.

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.

Career

Her story, “Elvis Lives”, was awarded the 1991 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),[5] One Year to a Writing Life (Marlowe & Company, 2007), Delta Blues (Tyrus Books, 2010),[6] [7] Fort Lauderdale Magazine (2014), Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (Gutter Books, 2014),[8] Fifteen Views of Miami (Burrow Press, 2014)[9] and the Southern Women's Review (2015)[10]

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",[11] 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 Trains "Bulletin".

Barrett's third book Magpies won the 2011 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for general fiction.[12]

Barrett is founder and editor of The Florida Book Review[13] and Professor of English at Florida International University where she teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing.

Works

Notes

  1. Web site: Mabe . Chauncey . Writers as Teachers: Lynne Barrett . Sun-Sentinel . July 7, 1991.
  2. Web site: NEA Literature Fellowships . National Endowment for the Arts . March 2006 . 13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090612220201/http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf . 2009-06-12 .
  3. Henderson . Eleanor . Recent Winners . Poets & Writers . 30 . 1 . January–February 2002 . https://web.archive.org/web/20020416051834/http://www.pw.org/mag/ga0201.htm . April 16, 2002.
  4. Web site: Lachman . Martin . Prizes, Awards, and Nominations Given for Material Originally Published in EQMM . Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . March 19, 2013.
  5. http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/miami-noir/ Miami Noir
  6. Web site: Baker . Eleanor Inge . Book review: 'Delta Blues' Southern mystery anthology . Press-Register Correspondent . June 27, 2010.
  7. Web site: An interview with Lynne Barrett . Delta Blues Collection . https://web.archive.org/web/20110709011540/http://www.deltabluescollection.com/LynneBarrettinterview.html . July 9, 2011.
  8. http://www.troubleintheheartland.net/#contributors Trouble in the Heartland contributors
  9. http://burrowpress.com/miami/ Fifteen Views of Miami
  10. http://southernwomensreview.com/work/millinery-2/ "Millinery", Southern Women's Review
  11. Web site: Barrett . Lynne . What Editors Want; A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines . The Review Review . March 19, 2013.
  12. Web site: Award Winners 2011 . The Florida Book Awards . March 19, 2013.
  13. Web site: The Florida Book Review: About Us . 2014.

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