Tracy Winn

Events: Lowell Stories

Book: Mrs. Somebody Somebody

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Tracy Winn earned her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Trust, and the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and fellowships from the MacDowell and the Millay Colonies. Her stories have appeared in the New Orleans Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Western Humanities Review. She works with Gaining Ground, a local non-profit farm that gives its produce to local shelters and meal programs.

Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, says of Mrs. Somebody Somebody “A dying mill town, beautifully evoked in all its gritty reality and lost luster: this is the setting for Tracy Winn’s remarkable debut collection. Winn writes with clarity and keen perception; her stories come together like a mosaic to create a compelling, deeply-textured world. You won’t easily forget these characters, mill owners and union organizers, hairdressers and immigrants, whose lives are full of loss and discovery, regret and beauty, and whose stories brush against one another, overlap, and intersect in unexpected ways. These are deeply satisfying stories, subtle, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.”