Lucy Honig

American short story writer (1948–2017)

Lucy Honig
Born	(1948-05-07)May 7, 1948
Died	September 18, 2017(2017-09-18) (aged 69)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	Syracuse University Hunter College (MEd)
Genre	Short story
Notable awards	Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1999)

Lucy Honig (May 7, 1948 – September 18, 2017) was an American short story writer.

Life

She graduated from Syracuse University and from Hunter College with a master's in education. She taught in the Boston University School of Public Health.^[1]

Her work appeared in AGNI,^[2] DoubleTake, Gargoyle,^[3] The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares^[4]

Open Season. Scala House Publishers, LLC. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9720287-2-1.
The truly needy and other stories. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5781-2. (reprint 2002)
English as a Second Language. 20 Century American Short Stories - Volume 2. 1995.

Best American Short Stories 1988,
William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42192-8.
John Edgar Wideman, ed. (2003). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5815-4.

^ Hope Green (2 April 1999). "SPH prof wins fiction prize for American survival stories". B.U. Bridge.
^ "AGNI Online: Author Lucy Honig". Archived from the original on 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
^ "Gargoyle: Issue 54". Archived from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
^ http://www.jfklibrary.org/NR/rdonlyres/A9BA6BE2-F20A-4268-97C1-4C65433B1C44/31567/PENHemingwaywithRobertPinsky9999996.pdf ^{[dead link]}