Rate My Professor Lynne Barrett

Lynne Barrett is a Professor of English at Florida International University, specializing in Literature. She teaches graduate and undergraduate workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and mystery and suspense, as well as MFA thesis workshops and seminars in plot and literary journalism. As founding editor of The Florida Book Review, she has significantly contributed to literary discourse in South Florida. Barrett also serves as president of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers and has received numerous accolades at FIU, including Top Scholar in 2012, Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentorship in 2011, Award for Excellence in Research, College of Arts, Sciences, and Education Award for Service, and Department of English Award for Teaching. Her career includes extensive teaching at writers' conferences such as the International Women's Writing Guild, Florida Gulf Coast University Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Grub Street Muse & the Marketplace, Key West Literary Seminar Writers' Workshops, and Miami Dade College Student Writers Conference, where she leads sessions on plot, structure, character, setting, and mystery writing.