Lucy Honig
# Lucy Honig

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 .

Her work appeared in AGNI, DoubleTake, Gargoyle, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares

## Awards

* 1998 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
* 1992, 1996 O. Henry Award for short fiction
* L.L. Winship PEN New England award finalist

## Works

### Short stories

* 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.

### Novels

* Waiting for Rescue: A Novel. Counterpoint. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58243-527-5.
* Picking up: by Lucy Honig. Dog Ear Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-937966-20-4.

### Anthologies

* 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.
