Lynne Barrett

Lynne Barrett

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 in 1972 and her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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. [ [http://www.hycyber.com/MYST/edgars.html Edgar Awards, 1946-2005 ] ] “Beauty” won the Best Short Story Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in 2001. She has received an NEA (1991) [ [http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf NEA newsletter 2006] page 12] , and an artist's fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (2001-02). [ [http://www.pw.org/mag/ga0201.htm Poets & Writers] 2001] Her short stories have appeared in "Redbook", "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" [ [http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/about/awards.shtml The Mystery Place] ] , " [http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/books/mondo/mondobarbie.html 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" ( [http://www.rock-press.com/rock/books/ia.htm Rock Press] ), "Marilyn: Shades of Blonde" (Forge) and many other magazines and anthologies. Recent stories have appeared in "A Dixie Christmas" ( [http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/?isbn=1565124839 Algonquin Books] , 2005), " [http://www.akashicbooks.com/miaminoir.htm Miami Noir] " ( [http://www.akashicbooks.com/ Akashic Books] , 2006) and " [http://www.susantiberghien.com/ 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 " [http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/ekit-kovbira.htm 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 [http://www.floridabookreview.com FloridaBookReview.com] and Professor of English at Florida International University where she teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing.

Works

*"The Land of Go" (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1988)
*" [http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/T.Barr-Secr.html 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

Notes

External links

* [http://lynne.barrett.googlepages.com/home Lynne Barrett's Website]
* [http://w3.fiu.edu/crwriting/ FIU Creative Writing Program]
* [http://www.floridabookreview.com FloridaBookReview.com]
* [http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstrm/ Gulf Stream Magazine]


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