{{short description|American writer and editor|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mabe |first=Chauncey |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-07-07/features/9101250000_1_mystery-short-story-elvis-lives-playwriting |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416012858/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-07-07/features/9101250000_1_mystery-short-story-elvis-lives-playwriting |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 16, 2015 |title=Writers as Teachers: Lynne Barrett |work=Sun-Sentinel |date=July 7, 1991}}</ref> “Beauty” won the Best Short Story Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in 2001. She has received an NEA (1991),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf |title=NEA Literature Fellowships |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |date=March 2006 |page=13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612220201/http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf |archivedate=2009-06-12 }}</ref> and an artist's fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs (2001–02).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Henderson |first=Eleanor |url=http://www.pw.org/mag/ga0201.htm |title=Recent Winners |journal=Poets & Writers |volume=30 |issue=1 |date=January–February 2002 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020416051834/http://www.pw.org/mag/ga0201.htm |archivedate=April 16, 2002}}</ref> Her short stories have appeared in ''Redbook'', twice in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Lachman |first=Martin |url=http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/about/awards.aspx |title=Prizes, Awards, and Nominations Given for Material Originally Published in EQMM |work=Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |accessdate=March 19, 2013 |archive-date=May 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523193742/https://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/about/awards.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''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),<ref>[http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/miami-noir/ Miami Noir]</ref> ''One Year to a Writing Life'' (Marlowe & Company, 2007), ''Delta Blues'' (Tyrus Books, 2010),<ref>{{cite web |last=Baker |first=Eleanor Inge |url=http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2010/06/book_review_delta_blues_southe.html |title=Book review: 'Delta Blues' Southern mystery anthology |work=Press-Register Correspondent |date=June 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deltabluescollection.com/LynneBarrettinterview.html |title=An interview with Lynne Barrett |publisher=Delta Blues Collection |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709011540/http://www.deltabluescollection.com/LynneBarrettinterview.html |archivedate=July 9, 2011}}</ref> ''Fort Lauderdale Magazine'' (2014), ''Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen'' (Gutter Books, 2014),<ref>[http://www.troubleintheheartland.net/#contributors ''Trouble in the Heartland'' contributors]</ref> ''Fifteen Views of Miami'' (Burrow Press, 2014)<ref>[http://burrowpress.com/miami/ ''Fifteen Views of Miami'']</ref> and the ''Southern Women's Review'' (2015)<ref>[http://southernwomensreview.com/work/millinery-2/ "Millinery", ''Southern Women's Review''].</ref>
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",<ref>{{cite web |last=Barrett |first=Lynne |url=http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/what-editors-want-must-read-writers-submitti |title=What Editors Want; A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines |work=The Review Review |accessdate=March 19, 2013}}</ref> 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's third book ''Magpies'' won the 2011 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for general fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu/2011_winners.html#GF |title=Award Winners 2011 |publisher=The Florida Book Awards |accessdate=March 19, 2013}}</ref>
Barrett is founder and editor of ''The Florida Book Review''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridabookreview.net/about-us.html |title=''The Florida Book Review: About Us'' |date=2014}}</ref> 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) *''The Secret Names of Women'' (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon, 1999), a BookSense selection of the American Booksellers Association *''Magpies'' (short stories) (Carnegie Mellon, 2011), winner of the 2011 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for General Fiction *''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 == <references/>
== External links == *[http://www.lynnebarrett.com/ Lynne Barrett's Website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070324213302/http://w3.fiu.edu/CRWRITING/ FIU Creative Writing Program] *[http://www.floridabookreview.net ''The Florida Book Review''] *[http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstrm/ ''Gulf Stream Magazine'']
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