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 her B.A. in English Composition from Mount Holyoke College and 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, 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) and One Year to a Writing Life (Marlowe & Company, 2007).
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. She 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
- 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
