Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 13:47:29 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <bwsmof at bwsmof.org>, <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Lisa Barnett, 19?? - 2006
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

from Joe Berlant:

>>> jtberlant at aol.com 5/2/2006 1:34:38 PM >>>
>From Don Sakers, on SFF-Net:

Fantasy writer Lisa A. Barnett died  this morning (Tuesday, May 2) at
her
home in Portsmouth, NH, from
brain  tumor. She died very peacefully in her sleep, in the company of
her
partner,  Melissa Scott, and
other family members.

Lisa was born and bred in  Dorchester, MA, attended Girls' Latin
School, and
got her BA from  UMass/
Boston. She was a member of the Piscataqua Obedience Club, a volunteer
with
EPONA (Equine
Protection of North America) and senior editor at  Heinemann in
Portsmouth,
NH.

Lisa worked in publishing since she was in  college, starting at
Baker's
Plays in Boston, and then moving
to Heinemann  in 1988, where she was able to start and develop their
own line
of books on  theatre --
putting both her major and her minor to work for her!

Her  collaboration with Melissa Scott produced three novels: POINT OF
HOPES
and POINT  OF DREAMS
(Lambda Literary Award winner, 2002), both set in the fantasy city  of

Astreiant, and THE ARMOR OF
LIGHT, set in an alternate Elizabethan  England -- and a not-very-short
short
story, "The Carmen
Miranda Gambit,"  published in the 1990 collection CARMEN MIRANDA'S
GHOST IS
HAUNTING SPACE
STATION THREE.