Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of the story collections THE SECRET NAMES OF WOMEN, THE LAND OF GO, and, most recently, MAGPIES, which received the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for General Fiction. Barrett edited TIGERTAIL: FLORIDA FLASH, and co-edited BIRTH: A LITERARY COMPANION and THE JAMES M. CAIN COOKBOOK, a collection of Cain’s nonfiction. 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, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.