{{Short description|American writer (born 1955)}} {{Multiple issues| {{External links|date=November 2021}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2021}} }} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Garielle Lutz | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|10|26}} | birth_place = United States | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = short story, essays | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Garielle Lutz''' (born 26 October 1955) is an American writer of fiction. In 2021, simultaneous with the publication of her book ''Worsted'', Lutz came out as a transgender woman.<ref name="https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/worsted-elizabeth-ellen-interviews-garielle-lutz">{{cite web |last1=Ellen |first1=Elizabeth |title=Worsted: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Garielle Lutz |url=https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/worsted-elizabeth-ellen-interviews-garielle-lutz |website=Hobart Pulp |date=May 4, 2020 |access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> In 2022, she was twice mentioned as an unlikely contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/167921/will-win-2022-nobel-prize-literature|title=Who Will Win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?|date=3 October 2022|access-date=10 October 2022|author=Alex Shepard|magazine=The New Republic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.india.com/news/world/nobel-2022-literature-11-authors-who-should-win-nobel-prize-for-literature-2022-here-are-some-predictions-5666682/|title=11 Authors Who Should Win Nobel Prize For Literature 2022|access-date=10 October 2022|date=3 October 2022|website=India.com|author=Shrimansi Kaushik}}</ref>
==Career== Lutz was an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, but is now retired.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greensburg.pitt.edu/academics/faculty |title=Greensburg faculty |access-date=2014-09-11 |archive-date=2014-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911212833/http://www.greensburg.pitt.edu/academics/faculty |url-status=dead }}</ref>
A collection of her short fiction, ''Stories in the Worst Way'', was published by Alfred A. Knopf in November 1996 and re-published by 3rd Bed in 2002 and Calamari Press in 2009. Lutz's second collection of short stories, ''I Looked Alive'', was published by the now-defunct Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 and republished by Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail in 2010. ''Partial List of People to Bleach'', a chapbook of new and early stories (published pseudonymously as Lee Stone in Gordon Lish's ''The Quarterly'') was released by [https://futuretensebooks.com/ Future Tense Books] in 2007. ''Divorcer'', a collection of seven stories, was released by Calamari Press in 2011. Her work has appeared in ''Sleepingfish'', ''NOON'', ''The Quarterly'', ''Conjunctions'', ''Unsaid'', ''Fence'', ''StoryQuarterly'', ''The Believer'', ''Cimarron Review'', ''3rd Bed'', ''Slate Magazine'', ''New York Tyrant'', ''The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories'', ''The Apocalypse Reader'' (Thunder's Mouth Press), ''PP/FF: An Anthology'' (Starcherone Books), ''The Random House Treasury of Light Verse'' and in the film ''60 Writers/60 Places''.
==Awards and recognitions== Lutz received a literature grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996, and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 1999.
==Publications== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
===Fiction=== *''[http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/Lutz_Stories_Worst_Way.htm Stories In the Worst Way]'' (1996 from Alfred A. Knopf; 2002 from 3rd Bed; 2009 from Calamari Press) *''I Looked Alive'' (2003 from Four Walls Eight Windows; 2010 from Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail) *''Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference'', with Diane Stevenson (2005 from Writer's Digest Books) *''Partial List of People to Bleach'' (2007 from Future Tense Books) *''[http://calamaripress.com/divorcer.htm Divorcer]'' (2011 from Calamari Press) *''The Gotham Grammarian'' (2015 from Calamari Press) ''[https://calamaripress.com/Gotham_Grammarian.htm Online Version]'' *''Assisted Living'' (2017 from Future Tense Books) *''[https://store.nytyrant.com/products/the-complete-gary-lutz The Complete Gary Lutz]'' (2019 from Tyrant Books) *''Worsted'' (2021 from Short Flight/Long Drive Books) *''Backwardness'' (2024 from Hobart Pulp)
===Online texts=== '''Short Fiction:''' *[https://socratesonthebeach.com/garielle-lutz-backwardness "Backwardness"] *[https://socratesonthebeach.com/garielle-lutz2 "She Who Is Still Within Reach"] *[https://socratesonthebeach.com/gariellelutz "I Must Have Always Felt Elevated"] *[http://www.postroadmag.com/Issue_1/Fiction/lutz.html "Eminence"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928013945/http://www.postroadmag.com/Issue_1/Fiction/lutz.html |date=2007-09-28 }} *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/gary2.htm "For Food"] *[http://www.elimae.com/fiction/lutz/ventriloque.html "Ventriloque"] *[http://www.elimae.com/fiction/lutz/lps.html "I Used to Love LPs"] *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-c.htm "Contractions"] *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-d.htm "Devotions"] *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-ede.htm "Esprit de L'Elevator"] *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-sm.htm "Street Map of the Continent"] *[http://www.webdelsol.com/lutz/lutz-smt.htm "SMTWTFS"]
'''Review:''' *[http://www.slate.com/id/2086628 "Fatal Agreement: The new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style wrestles with grammar." (''Slate'', August 2003)] *[http://www.believermag.com/issues/201006/?read=review_unrue A review of ''Life of a Star'' by Jane Unrue (''The Believer'', June 2010)]
'''Essay:''' *[https://www.thebeliever.net/the-sentence-is-a-lonely-place/ "The Sentence Is a Lonely Place" (''The Believer'', January 2009)] *[https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-poetry-of-the-paragraph-some-notes/ ("The Poetry of the Paragraphs: Some Notes") (''3am Magazine'', August 2016)]
===Interviews=== *[https://www.vice.com/en/article/windows-that-lead-to-more-windows-an-interview-with-gary-lutz/ with Blake Butler, ''Vice''] *[http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/lutziana/Content?oid=12361 with Diana George, ''The Stranger''] *[http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_07_009366.php with Justin Taylor, ''Bookslut''] *[http://www.believermag.com/issues/200602/?read=interview_lutz with Ross Simonini, ''Believer Magazine''] *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101027212755/http://thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2009/09/03/i-am-not-a-camera-michael-kimball-interviews-gary-lutz/ with Michael Kimball, ''The Faster Times'']}} *[http://www.wearechampionmag.com/issue1/fourteen.html with Gene Kwak, ''We Are Champion''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914130451/http://www.wearechampionmag.com/issue1/fourteen.html |date=2010-09-14 }} *[http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/newly-fraught-and-alien with David Winters, "3:AM Magazine"] *[http://www.wagsrevue.com/Issue_7/#/8 with Dylan Nice, "Wag's Revue"] *[https://bigother.com/2011/06/07/gary-lutz-interview/ with Greg Gerke, ''Big Other''] *[https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/worsted-elizabeth-ellen-interviews-garielle-lutz with Elizabeth Ellen, ''Hobart Pulp''] {{div col end}}
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