Fiction writer and art critic Lynn Crawford is a 2010 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and a founding board member of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Her work appears in many anthologies, including the Ouilpo Compendium (Atlas Press).
Her art criticism has appeared in:
- Art in America
- Metro Times
- Tema Celeste
- Modern Painters
- The Brooklyn Rail and Parkett
Her books include:
Simply Separate People, Two
Newest Novel
Available April 1, 2011
Publisher: Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions
“Simply Separate People, Two” is a sequel to her latest novel.
Available at:
- Leopolds Books, Detroit, MI, 313-875-4677
- Brooklyn Rail Store, online store
Fortification Resort (a series of sestinas inspired by the oulipo)
Paperback: 81 pages
Publisher: Black Square Editions (January 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0974406562
ISBN-13: 978-0974406565
If anyone asks, you can tell them that contemporary America’s outstanding literary realist is named Lynn Crawford, and that she goes around disguised as a formalist. Read these “prose sestinas” and learn more than you may be willing to know about who we are and the “fortification resort” we live in–or just be entertained, if you can, by her verbal bravura.
– Barry Schwabsky
Simply Separate People
Paperback: 172 pages
Publisher: Black Square Editions; First edition (March 12, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0971248508
ISBN-13: 978-0971248502
The world Lynn Crawford creates in Simply Separate People is so bewitching and original she soon may find the Surgeon General classifying her work as dangerously addictive.
- Harry Mathews
Life and literature, Crawford suggests, is an experiment; both need invention–new responses and language. Crawford’s brave new novel is as fresh, weird, moving, and comic as it gets.
– Lynne Tillman
Blow (Lingo Books)
Publisher: Hard Press Editions (December 25, 1998)
Paperback: 88 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1889097179
ISBN-13: 978-1889097176
a fairy tale, a science fiction, and an allegory… BLOW is a book, a place, a state of mind
- John Yau
Solow (House of Outside Series; V. 1)
Publisher: Hard Press Editions (May 25, 1995)
Paperback: 74 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0963843338
ISBN-13: 978-0963843333
Haven’t wanted to read anything lately, certainly not anyof the 500 manuscripts and galleys I get a year. However, I found Solow fascinating. It reminds me of early John Hawkes which is still for me the best Hawkes. The whole dreamscape was especially vivid.
- Jim Harrison
