Garielle Lutz (born 26 October 1955) 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

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, but is now retired. A collection of her short fiction, ''Stories in the Worst Way'', was published by

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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

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in 2003 and republished by

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in 2010. ''Partial List of People to Bleach'', a chapbook of new and early stories (published pseudonymously as Lee Stone in

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'') was released by Future Tense Books in 2007. ''Divorcer'', a collection of seven stories, was released by Calamari Press in 2011. Her works has appeared in '' Sleepingfish'', ''

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'', ''

'', ''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'' (Thunder's Mouth Press), ''PP/FF: An Anthology'' (Starcherone Books), ''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

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in 1996, and a grant from the

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in 1999.

Publications

Fiction

*
Stories In the Worst Way
' (1996 from

; 2002 from 3rd Bed; 2009 from Calamari Press) *''

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'' (2003 from

; 2010 from

) *'' Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference'', with Diane Stevenson (2005 from

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) *''

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'' (2007 from Future Tense Books) *
Divorcer
' (2011 from Calamari Press) *''The Gotham Grammarian'' (2015 from Calamari Press) *''Assisted Living'' (2017 from Future Tense Books) *
The Complete Gary Lutz
' (2019 from

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) *''Worsted'' (2021 from Short Flight/Long Drive Books)

Online texts

Short Fiction:
"Backwardness""She Who Is Still Within Reach""I Must Have Always Felt Elevated"

Review:
"Fatal Agreement: The new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style wrestles with grammar." (''Slate'', August 2003)A review of ''Life of a Star'' by Jane Unrue (''The Believer'', June 2010)
Essay:
"The Sentence Is a Lonely Place" (''The Believer'', January 2009)("The Poetry of the Paragraphs: Some Notes") (''3am Magazine'', August 2016)

Interviews

with Blake Butler, ''Vice''with Diana George, ''The Stranger''with Justin Taylor, ''Bookslut''with Ross Simonini, ''Believer Magazine''with Michael Kimball, ''The Faster Times''

with David Winters, "3:AM Magazine"with Dylan Nice, "Wag's Revue"with Greg Gerke, ''Big Other''with Elizabeth Ellen, ''Hobart Pulp''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lutz, Garielle 1955 births Living people American LGBT writers Transgender writers University of Pittsburgh faculty Place of birth missing (living people)