Lynne Barrett is an American writer and editor, best known for her short stories.
[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, twice in 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),[5] One Year to a Writing Life (Marlowe & Company, 2007), Delta Blues (Tyrus Books, 2010),[6][7] Fort Lauderdale Magazine (2014), Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (Gutter Books, 2014),[8] Fifteen Views of Miami (Burrow Press, 2014)[9] and the Southern Women's Review (2015)[10] She wrote the libretto for the children's opera Cricketina.