Jeanne Thornton (born 1983) [1] is an American writer and copublisher of Instar Books and Rocksalt Magazine. She has received the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. [2] Anthologies to which she has contributed to have won a Lambda Literary Award [3] and a Barbara Gittings Literature Award. [4] Works she has written and edited have been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards for Debut Fiction, Transgender Fiction, [2] and Graphic Novel. [5] Her 2021 novel Summer Fun is a one-sided epistolary novel consisting of letters from a transgender woman in New Mexico to a fictional musician based on Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys; [6] [7] it won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. [8]
Thornton is a transgender woman. [9] [10] She lived in Austin, Texas from 2011 to 2014. [9] [11]
Year | Award | Work | Thornton's role | Result | Ref. |
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2022 | Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction | Summer Fun | Author | Winner | [8] |
2018 | Barbara Gittings Literature Award | Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers | Contributor | Winner | [12] |
Lambda Literary Award for Anthology | Finalist | [4] | |||
2019 | Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Graphic Novel | We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology | Editor | Finalist | [5] |
2018 | Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction | Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 | Contributor | Winner | [3] |
2018 | Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction | The Black Emerald | Author | Finalist | [2] |
2018 | Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers | Self | Winner | [2] | |
2012 | Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction | The Dream of Doctor Bantam | Author | Finalist | [2] |