Laurie Lynn Drummond

Laurie's short story collection, Anything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You (HarperCollins 2004) was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the Jesse James Award in Fiction for Best Book from the Texas Institute of Letters, as well as the Violet Crown Award in Fiction from the Writers' League of Texas. A story from the collection, "Something About a Scar," won an Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Laurie's stories and essays have been published in Story, Southern Review, Fiction, Black Warrior Review, New Virginia Review, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and River Teeth, among others. She is working on a novel, Memories of the Living, also for HarperCollins, and a book-length memoir, Losing My Gun.