Barrett Wins Rea Award

Andrea Barrett, senior lecturer in English, has been named winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story for 2015. The $30,000 prize recognizes “a living U.S. or Canadian writer … who has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.” Barrett’s most recent work, the short story collection Archangel (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), was a finalist for The Story Prize. Ship Fever (Norton, 1996) won the National Book Award, and Servants of the Map (Norton, 2002) was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She’s also written six novels.