Garielle Lutz


Garielle Lutz is an American writer of fiction. In 2021, simultaneous with the publication of her book Worsted, Lutz came out as a transgender woman. In 2022, she was twice mentioned as an unlikely contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Career

Lutz was an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, but is now retired.
A collection of her short fiction, Stories in the Worst Way, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in November 1996 and re-published by 3rd Bed in 2002 and Calamari Press in 2009. Lutz's second collection of short stories, I Looked Alive, was published by the now-defunct Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 and republished by Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail in 2010. Partial List of People to Bleach, a chapbook of new and early stories was released by in 2007. Divorcer, a collection of seven stories, was released by Calamari Press in 2011. Her work has appeared in Sleepingfish, NOON, The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Unsaid, Fence, StoryQuarterly, The Believer, Cimarron Review, 3rd Bed, Slate Magazine, New York Tyrant, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, The Apocalypse Reader, PP/FF: An Anthology, The Random House Treasury of Light Verse and in the film 60 Writers/60 Places.

Awards and recognitions

Lutz received a literature grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996, and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 1999.

Publications

Fiction

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