Art Critic and Fiction Writer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fiction. A stunningly attractive book, filled with adult characters who hold the world together with the huge effort of holding themselves together. Crawford draws her urban New World with the fancy of a poet and recreates its dreamy detail with the cruelty of an artist. Author City: DETROIT, MI USA
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