Lynne Barrett's third story collection Magpies received the Florida Book Awards fiction gold medal. Her handbook What Editors Want guides writers through the submissions process, and she’s editor of the nonfiction anthology Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do (and Don’t) Get Around in South Florida. Her recent work appears in New Flash Fiction Review, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Mystery Tribune, Flash! Writing the Very Short Story, The Miami Rail, Necessary Fiction, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, One Year to a Writing Life, and Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash. An Edgar Award recipient for best mystery story, Barrett teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University and is editor of The Florida Book Review.