Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) is the author of six short story collections, including Angels Laundromat, Homesick, and the posthumous Manual for Cleaning Women (2015), named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 Best Books of that year. During her lifetime, Berlin worked as a switchboard operator, hospital ward clerk, cleaning woman, and physician’s assistant and taught creative writing in venues such as the San Francisco County Jail, Naropa University, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she was awarded a prize for teaching excellence. She suffered from severe scoliosis, a condition that led to her death on her sixty-eighth birthday.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- B.F. and Me, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018
