Lynne Barrett is the author of three short story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and Magpies. She also edited the anthology Making Good Time, True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida; the collection Tigertail: Florida Flash, and also co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook, a collection of Cain’s nonfiction. Lynne’s book What Editors Want: A Must Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines has recently gone into its second printing. She teaches at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review. Her story “The Noir Boudoir” is included in Miami Noir (Akashic Books) edited by Les Standiford