She received an American Book Award in 1991 for Homesick, and was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Most of her work can be found in three volumes: Homesick: New and Selected Stories (1990), So Long: Stories 1987-92 (1993) and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98 (1999). She began publishing stories at age 24 in national magazines, but her first collection, Angel's Laundromat, did not appear until 1981.
Lucia Berlin was born in Juneau, Alaska, and grew up in mining camps in Idaho, Montana, and Arizona, following her father's career as a mining engineer then in Santiago, Chile, where she led a wealthy and privileged life as a teenager.
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