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About Lynne
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Bio:
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of three short story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and Magpies, which received the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for General Fiction in 2012. Her anthology Making Good Time, True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida, was published in Fall 2019 by Jai-Alai Books. What Editors Want: A Must Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines, published by Rain Chain Press, has gone into its second printing. The essay on which it is based, published in The Review Review, was featured in the L.A. Times Book Blog and republished in Glimmer Train's digest. Barrett edited Tigertail: Florida Flash, and co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook, a collection of Cain's nonfiction.
Her short stories have appeared in many journals including 34 Orchard (stories of the Uncanny), Rivanna Review, Orange Blossom Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Mystery Tribune, Necessary Fiction, The Miami Rail, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Night Train, and Real South. "Marble," which was published in Mystery Tribune in Spring 2017 was listed on the Honor Roll in Best American Mysteries 2018. Her micro-fiction "Backyard Chair, Miami" appeared in 50-Word Story, and other very short stories have been published in Paragraph Planet, New Flash Fiction Review, Rose Red Review, and more.
Her essays have been published in The Hong Kong Review, River Teeth's "Beautiful Things" series, and The Southern Women's Review. In Fall 2020, a new essay was included in the book Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault (Beacon Press), and a short story first published in Tampa Review in the 1990s was republished in Akashic's Miami Noir: The Classics. Her stories and essays are included in many anthologies and textbooks, including: Flash! Writing the Very Short Story, Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash, Fifteen Views of Miami, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, Blue Christmas, One Year to a Writing Life, Delta Blues, A Dixie Christmas, Miami Noir, Simply the Best Mysteries, A Hell of a Woman, Mondo Barbie, Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, The Lexington Introduction to Literature, and many more.
She has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery story from the Mystery Writers of America, the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short story, a Florida Book Awards gold medal, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review.
Her short stories have appeared in many journals including 34 Orchard (stories of the Uncanny), Rivanna Review, Orange Blossom Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Mystery Tribune, Necessary Fiction, The Miami Rail, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Night Train, and Real South. "Marble," which was published in Mystery Tribune in Spring 2017 was listed on the Honor Roll in Best American Mysteries 2018. Her micro-fiction "Backyard Chair, Miami" appeared in 50-Word Story, and other very short stories have been published in Paragraph Planet, New Flash Fiction Review, Rose Red Review, and more.
Her essays have been published in The Hong Kong Review, River Teeth's "Beautiful Things" series, and The Southern Women's Review. In Fall 2020, a new essay was included in the book Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault (Beacon Press), and a short story first published in Tampa Review in the 1990s was republished in Akashic's Miami Noir: The Classics. Her stories and essays are included in many anthologies and textbooks, including: Flash! Writing the Very Short Story, Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash, Fifteen Views of Miami, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, Blue Christmas, One Year to a Writing Life, Delta Blues, A Dixie Christmas, Miami Noir, Simply the Best Mysteries, A Hell of a Woman, Mondo Barbie, Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, The Lexington Introduction to Literature, and many more.
She has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery story from the Mystery Writers of America, the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short story, a Florida Book Awards gold medal, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review.
Around the web:
Lynne took part in a discussion of "Submitting Etiquette" for The Review Review.
Geoffrey Philp interviewed Lynne for his blog about the writing life and my class in Literary Journalism.
Laura Valeri interviewed her for Bookslut.
Dena Santoro wrote a wonderful appreciation of the (bad) girls in Lynne's short stories, at Like Fire.
"Angles of Belonging," a guest blog about having grown up in NJ, being a "Florida writer," and the many ways characters can connect to place, is at Lisa Romeo Writes.
At The Writerly Life, Gerry Wilson and Lynne discussed thinking about a story's edges and the ever-challenging issue of trying to get too many things done.
On Casey Pycior's blog, The Story is the Cure, we discussed, among other things, Lynne's story "Links" and unanticipated consequences of writing about the dot com world.
Laura Richardson interviewed her about Magpies, plot, editing, and much more for Sliver of Stone Magazine.
Angela Kelsey did a four-part (they're short!) interview with me on her blog. Topics covered include how suspense is created in literary stories, and tips for writers.
Geoffrey Philp interviewed Lynne for his blog about the writing life and my class in Literary Journalism.
Laura Valeri interviewed her for Bookslut.
Dena Santoro wrote a wonderful appreciation of the (bad) girls in Lynne's short stories, at Like Fire.
"Angles of Belonging," a guest blog about having grown up in NJ, being a "Florida writer," and the many ways characters can connect to place, is at Lisa Romeo Writes.
At The Writerly Life, Gerry Wilson and Lynne discussed thinking about a story's edges and the ever-challenging issue of trying to get too many things done.
On Casey Pycior's blog, The Story is the Cure, we discussed, among other things, Lynne's story "Links" and unanticipated consequences of writing about the dot com world.
Laura Richardson interviewed her about Magpies, plot, editing, and much more for Sliver of Stone Magazine.
Angela Kelsey did a four-part (they're short!) interview with me on her blog. Topics covered include how suspense is created in literary stories, and tips for writers.
The Florida Book Award:
Sandy Grady Ackerman interviews Florida Book Awards 2011 Award Winner for General Fiction Gold: Lynne Barrett, Magpies (Carnegie Mellon University Press) for Florida Public Television
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Women of Florida Fiction:
Women of Florida Fiction, Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers, edited by Tammy Powley and April Van Camp, is out from McFarland. "Florida as symbol and myth is the subject of this collection of new critical essays exploring fiction written by female Floridian authors."
Scholar Claudia Slate wrote the chapter on the stories in Magpies, and the book’s final section includes interviews with authors Lynne Barrett, Jeannine Capó Cruz, Vicki Hendricks, and Angela Hunt.
More interviews:
Necee Regis interviewed Lynne (and compares reading the collection to eating Belgian chocolates) at the Beyond the Margins.
Casey Pycior interviewed Lynne for his blog, The Story is the Cure. Among other things, Lynne discusses how the story "Links" got inadvertently linked, and then delinked, online, unanticipated consequences of writing about the dot com world.
The Miami New Times' interview about editing Tigertail, A South Florida Annual: Florida Flash.
Emily Bingham of U. South Alabama interviewed Lynne on writing and her story "Blues for Veneece."
A Micro-Interview for Boston's Grub Street Daily. Read the interview here.
Awards
Awards:
Magpies won the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal in General Fiction.
In March 2012, Lynne was among the authors who received Gold Medals in the Florida Book Awards at the Florida Heritage Awards Ceremony in Tallahassee. The festivities included a lunch at the Governor's Mansion, and a book signing arranged by Florida's History Shop in the R.A. Gray Building. Winners were further honored at the April 2012 Florida Library Association conference in Orlando. The summer 2012 issue of FORUM, the magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, includes a salute to the Book Awards winners. Magpies has its own page.
Learn more about the Florida Book Awards here.
In March 2012, Lynne was among the authors who received Gold Medals in the Florida Book Awards at the Florida Heritage Awards Ceremony in Tallahassee. The festivities included a lunch at the Governor's Mansion, and a book signing arranged by Florida's History Shop in the R.A. Gray Building. Winners were further honored at the April 2012 Florida Library Association conference in Orlando. The summer 2012 issue of FORUM, the magazine of the Florida Humanities Council, includes a salute to the Book Awards winners. Magpies has its own page.
Learn more about the Florida Book Awards here.
Florida International University Awards
Lynne was chosen as one of the 2012 Florida International University Top Scholars, and featured in a full-page ad for the university in the Miami Herald.
She has also received a Florida International University 2011 Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentorship
and an Excellence in Research Award in 2003.
Edgar Allan Poe Award
Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story from Mystery Writers of America for "Elvis Lives,. In April 1991, Lynne went to New York City and posed for this photo in the afternoon. The champagne in the photo is gingerale, but a good deal of the real thing was consumed that evening before she found herself being chosen for the Edgar and giving a speech. Shethanked Ellery's Queen's Mystery Magazine, and editor Eleanor Sullivan, and the MWA, and even Poe.
Moondance International Film Festival Award
