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 New Orleans Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Western Humanities Review, among other venues. She works with Gaining Ground, a local non-profit farm that gives its produce to local shelters and meal programs. She lives near Boston with her husband and daughter.

“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 mosiac to create a compelling, deeply-textured world. You won’t easily forget these characters, mill owners and union organizers, hair dressers 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.” --Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

“Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these linked stories create shifting layers that delight individually and then, as a whole, reveal a place in all its complexity.” --Natalie Danford, author of Inheritance and co-editor of the Best New A

“With extraordinary grace and subtlety Tracy Winn crafts the interconnected stories that make up Mrs. Somebody Somebody. We’re immersed here in so many varied and individual lives, all born of and shaped by the industrial town of Lowell, Massachusetts, in an insightful and historically sweeping tale of labor and class in modern America. When characters are brought to life with such vibrant nuance, they continue to live far beyond the page.” --Thisbe Nissen, author of Osprey Island

“In Mrs. Somebody Somebody, Tracy Winn uses her substantial powers of language and observation to explore the ties that bind and the secrets that separate. Like the Merrimack River that flows through them, these wonderful stories run deep and swift.” --Elizabeth Graver, author of Awake

“A rare achievement. Tracy Winn’s characters struggle with unexpected losses and damaging habits, rarely triumphing over the troubles that fill their lives, but always questioning the hard truths that hold them in place.” --C. Michael Curtis, senior fiction editor, Atlantic Monthly

“Tracy Winn’s depiction of change over time is masterful, tracing the years after World War II in Lowell, Massachusetts, when the textile industry move south, the mills went condo, and a way of life ended for workers and owners, their children and their city. Split by the great Merrimack River, the geography of the city emblemizes the discontinuity between past and future, the class gulf between Belvidere Hill and the Bleachery, and the chasm of incomprehension between the women and men in these stories. Nothing is as simple as it seems in Tracy Winn’s world.” --Jack Betty, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly

“I love how fully Tracy Winn understands her characters and the complicated transactions between them in these richly imagined, eloquently written stories. Mrs. Somebody Somebody is rich in surprises and moments of unlikely beauty. A splendid debut.” --Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street