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 memory of American poet and cultural theorist Judy Grahn.
Winners[edit]
- 1997 — Bernadette Brooten, Love Between Women
- 1998 — Margot Peters, May Sarton: A Biography
- 1999 — Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity
- 2000 — Hilary Lapsley, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women
- 2001 — Amber Hollibaugh, My Dangerous Desires
- 2002 — Laura L. Doan, Fashioning Sapphism
- 2003 — Terry Wolverton, Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
- 2004 — Lillian Faderman, Naked in the Promised Land
- 2005 — Alison Smith, Name All the Animals
- 2006 — Tania Katan, My One-Night Stand with Cancer
- 2007 — Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
- 2008 — Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
- 2009 — Andrea Weiss, In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain
- 2010 — Rebecca Brown, American Romances
- 2011 — Barbara Hammer, Hammer!
- 2012 — Jeanne Córdova, When We Were Outlaws
- 2013 — Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?[1]
- 2014 — Julia M. Allen, Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins
- 2015 — Barbara Smith, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: 40 Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith
- 2016 — Marcia M. Gallo, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
- 2017 — Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse[2]
- 2018 — Rosalind Rosenberg, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
- 2019 — Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry[3]
- 2020 — Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House and Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals[4]
- 2021 — Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir[5]
- 2022 — Briona Simone Jones, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought[6]
- 2023 — Raquel Gutierrez, Brown Neon[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Going for the Silver". Gay City News, May 8, 2013.
- ^ "Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white". CBC Books, May 1, 2017.
- ^ "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly, April 24, 2019.
- ^ Samraweet Yohannes, "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature". CBC Books, May 1, 2020.
- ^ "2021 Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
- ^ "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction". Toronto Star, May 11, 2022.
- ^ "2023 Publishing Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2023.
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