Judy Grahn Award

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The Judy Grahn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the lesbian community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in honor of American poet and cultural theorist Judy Grahn.

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Recipients

Award winners and finalists [1]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.
1997 Bernadette Brooten Love Between WomenWinner
Honor Moore White BlackbirdFinalist
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors Finalist
1998 Margot Peters May SartonWinner
Amy Hoffman Hospital TimeFinalist
Sherrie Inness The Lesbian MenaceFinalist
1999 Jack Halberstam Female MasculinityWinner
Alison Bechdel The Incredible BechdelFinalist
Jill Johnston Admission AccomplishedFinalist
2000 Hilary Lapsley Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of WomenUniversity of Massachusetts PressWinner
Joan Larkin (ed.)A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out StoriesAvonFinalist
Lillian Faderman To Believe in WomenHoughton MifflinFinalist
2001 Amber Hollibaugh My Dangerous DesiresDuke University PressWinner
Bonnie J. Morris Girl ReelCoffee House PressFinalist
Carole Maso The Room Lit by RosesCounterpointFinalist
2002 Laura L. Doan Fashioning SapphismColumbia University PressWinner
Adrienne Rich Arts of the PossibleW. W. NortonFinalist
Suzanna Danuta Walters All the RageUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
2003 Terry Wolverton Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Women’s BuildingCity LightsWinner
Magie Dominic The Queen of Peace RoomWilfrid Laurier University PressFinalist
Suzanna Rodriguez Wild at HeartEcco/HarperCollinsFinalist
2004 Lillian Faderman Naked in the Promised LandHoughton MifflinWinner
Andrew WilsonBeautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith BloomsburyFinalist
Casey Charles The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on TrialUniversity Press of KansasFinalist
2005 Alison Smith Name All the Animals ScribnerWinner
Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre LordeW. W. NortonFinalist
Evelyn C. White Alice WalkerW. W. NortonFinalist
2006 Tania Katan My One-Night Stand with CancerAlyson BooksWinner [2]
Diana Souhami Wild GirlsSt. Martin’s PressFinalist
Gretchen Legler On the IceMilkweed EditionsFinalist
2007 Alison Bechdel Fun Home Houghton MifflinWinner [3]
Catherine Friend Hit by a FarmMarlowe & CompanyFinalist
Marcia Gallo Different DaughtersCarroll & GrafFinalist
2008 Janet Malcolm Two Lives: Gertrude and AliceYale University PressWinner [4]
Amy Hoffman An Army of Ex-LoversUniversity of Massachusetts PressFinalist
Sharon Marcus Between WomenPrinceton University PressFinalist
2009 Andrea Weiss In the Shadow of the Magic MountainUniversity of Chicago PressWinner [5]
Nancy D. Polikoff Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage Beacon PressFinalist
Regina Kunzel Criminal IntimacyUniversity of Chicago PressFinalist
2010 Rebecca Brown American RomancesCity LightsWinner
Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss HighsmithSt. Martin’s PressFinalist
Mary Cappello Called BackAlyson BooksFinalist
2011 Barbara Hammer Hammer!The Feminist PressWinner [6]
Emma Donoghue Inseparable: Desire Between Women in LiteratureAlfred A. KnopfFinalist
Terry Castle The Professor and Other WritingsHarper/HarperCollinsFinalist
2012 Jeanne Córdova When We Were OutlawsSpinsters InkWinner
Gayle S. Rubin Deviations: A Gayle Rubin ReaderDuke University PressFinalist
Lisa L. Moore Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian LandscapesUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist
2013 Alison Bechdel Are You My Mother? Houghton Mifflin HarcourtWinner [7]
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Can Be NormalGrove PressFinalist
Kate Bornstein A Queer and Pleasant DangerBeacon PressFinalist
Kelly Barth My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary JesusArktoi/Red HenFinalist
2014 Julia M. Allen Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace HutchinsSUNY PressWinner [8] [9]
Donna Minkowitz Growing Up GolemMagnus Books/Riverdale AvenueFinalist [10]
Jennifer Finney Boylan Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three GendersCrownFinalist [10]
Julia Serano Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More InclusiveSeal PressFinalist [10]
2015 Barbara Smith ; edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara SmithSUNY PressWinner [11]
Ariel Gore The End of EveHawthorne BooksFinalist
Daisy Hernandez A Cup of Water Under My BedBeacon PressFinalist
Kelly Cogswell Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian AvengerUniversity of Minnesota PressFinalist
2016 Marcia Gallo "No One Helped": Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban ApathyCornell University PressWinner [12]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way HomeArsenal Pulp PressFinalist
Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Simon and SchusterFinalist
Maggie Thrash Honor Girl Candlewick PressFinalist
2017 Sarah Schulman Conflict Is Not AbuseArsenal Pulp PressWinner [13] [14] [15]
Elizabeth M. Edman Queer VirtueBeacon PressFinalist
Emily K. Hobson Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian LeftUniversity of California PressFinalist
2018 Rosalind Rosenberg Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli MurrayOxford University PressWinner [16]
Eileen Myles AfterglowGrove PressFinalist
Melissa Febos Abandon MeBloomsbury USAFinalist
Myriam Gurba MeanCoffee House PressFinalist
2019 Imani Perry Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryBeacon PressWinner [17]
E. Patrick Johnson Black, Queer, Southern, Women: An Oral HistoryUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist [18]
Jaime Harker The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary CanonUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist [18]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Care Work: Dreaming Disability JusticeArsenal Pulp PressFinalist [18]
2020 Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House Graywolf PressWinner [19] [20]
Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments W. W. NortonWinner [19] [20]
Benjamin Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work EccoFinalist [21]
Samra Habib We Have Always Been HereViking / Penguin CanadaFinalist [21]
2021 Jenn Shapland My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Tin HouseWinner [22] [23]
Hilary Holladay The Power of Adrienne RichNan A. Talese/DoubledayFinalist
Julie Marie Wade Just an Ordinary Woman BreathingMad Creek Books/Ohio State University PressFinalist
Tana Wojczuk Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First CelebrityAvid Reader Press/Simon & SchusterFinalist
2022 Briona Simone Jones (ed.)Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian ThoughtThe New PressWinner [24]
Alison Bechdel The Secret to Superhuman Strength MarinerFinalist
Jackie Kay Bessie Smith: A Poet’s BiographyVintageFinalist
Lauren HoughLeaving Isn’t the Hardest ThingVintageFinalist
2023 Raquel Gutierrez Brown NeonCoffee House PressWinner [25] [26]
Leslie Absher Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of SecretsLatah BooksFinalist
MB Cashetta A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual EnlightenmentEngine BooksFinalist
Wendy L. Rouse Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage MovementNYU PressFinalist
2023 Raquel Gutierrez Brown NeonCoffee House PressWinner [27] [28]
Cookie Woolner The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before StonewallUniversity of North Carolina PressFinalist [29]
Lamya H Hijab Butch BluesDial PressFinalist [29]
A.V. Marraccini We the ParasitesSublunary EditionsFinalist [29]

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References

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  6. ↑ "Awards: L.A. Times Book Prizes; BTBA; Triangle". Shelf Awareness . 2011-05-02. Archived from the original on 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
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  10. 1 2 3 "Triangle Award Finalists Named". Publishers Weekly . 2014-03-12. Archived from the original on 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
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